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Patriots’ Great Day: The Battle of Sullivan’s Island
By Earl EchelberryBy the early 1770s, with a full century of settlement already behind it, Charleston, S.C., had come into its own as a thriving urban center. Read more
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The Murmansk Run: Running the Gauntlet of WWII’s Arctic Convoys
By Flint WhitlockIt was unbelievably dull and uncomfortable duty, often interspersed with moments of sheer terror and the possibility of sudden and violent death. Read more
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Ipo Dam: A Campaign For Water
By David LashIn February 1945, General Douglas MacArthur was poised to begin one of the great battles of his career. Read more
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Miracle in the Mud: The Hundred Years’ War’s Battle of Agincourt
By Robert L. SwainYoung and ambitious, recently crowned English king Henry V had a dynastic point to make, one that would relieve him of the taint of royal illegitimacy born of the fact that his father had usurped the English throne a mere decade before. Read more
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German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris
by David Alan JohnsonIn most popular spy thrillers, secret agents are tall, handsome, virile, and irresistible to women. Whether their name is Dirk Pitt, Jack Ryan, or James Bond, all are hard-drinking, well-tailored ladies’ men. Read more
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Harald “Land Waster” Hardradi
by Kenneth ClineFor many history buffs, the date 1066 conjures up an image of Norman knights breaking through the shield wall of the ax-wielding Anglo-Saxons at Senlac Hill. Read more
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Backward in Battle
By Robert F. DorrUp front, guns chattered. Out back, in his pressurized compartment aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber high over Japan, Andy Doty heard a warning shouted over the intercom. Read more
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Franklin Roosevelt’s Pre-Pearl Harbor Intervention Plans
By Donald J. YoungThis is a story of what might have been. If Japan had chosen to attack far-off British Malaya on December 7, 1941, instead of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, President Franklin Roosevelt was prepared to go before Congress and ask—for the first time in American history—for a declaration of war against a nation that had not fired the first shot against us. Read more
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Finnish Mosin Nagants
By Chuck LewisDeral Mosby is hooked. In a little over two years, the 58-year-old retired chemist’s collection of 20th-century military-surplus firearms has evolved from a handful of Russian Mosin Nagant infantry rifles valued at around $125 each to an ever-growing horde of Finnish military rifles and carbines, some of which are quite rare and worth considerably more. Read more
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The White and Black Ship
By Stephen D. LutzDuring World War II, the U.S. Navy built more than 1,000 destroyer escorts, ships whose primary duty was to escort supply convoys across the world’s oceans to insure that their precious cargo of food, fuel, war material, and personnel got to their destinations safely. Read more
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Battle of New Market Heights
By David NorrisReports of a massive enemy force crossing the James River to assail the paper-thin Confederate lines defending Richmond reached Lt. Read more
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Military Weapons: The Davy Crockett Mobile Missile Launcher
By Peter A. GoetzDesign work for a minimum-size atomic warhead called the XW-51 began at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in the mid 1950s. Read more
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The Striking Cobra: Phase Two of the D-Day Invasion
By David Alan Johnson“We’ve been slogging our way through hedgerow country, half an acre a day, and we’ve got to find a way to break out.” Read more
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Death of the Shangani Patrol
By Robert Barr SmithOn the banks of the rain-swollen Shangani River, a small force of white militiamen closed ranks as hundreds of Matabele warriors swarmed around them. Read more
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D-Day 1943: Could the Allied Invasion of Western Europe Have Happened One Year Earlier?
By Lt. Col. John Fenzel IIIOn June 6, 1944, the Allies unleashed on land, air, and sea the largest invasion force in world history in an enormous effort to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. Read more
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Collecting Tanker Helmets
By Peter SuciuSince the first tanks rolled across the battlefield in World War I, armored crews have required specialized equipment to protect them inside the giant metal beasts. Read more
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Reichswald: The Battle for a Sinister Forest
By Mike PhiferThe bloody fight for the Reichswald, according to Lieutenant General Horrocks, was a soldiers’ battle “fought by the regimental officers and men under the most ghastly conditions imaginable.” Read more
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Blood in the Sand: Shiite Assassins
By Mark S. LongoTheir name has been synonymous with murder for almost a thousand years, but few people know the full truth about the enigmatic organization known as the Assassins. Read more
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WWII Spies: Double Agent Dusko Popov, a.k.a. ‘Tricycle’
By Peter KrossOn March 18, 1941, an accident took place in the crowded streets of New York’s Times Square. Normally an accident like this would not make news. Read more
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Famous Marines: Smedley Butler
By Edward L. BimbergThe annals of the United States Marine Corps are filled with the names of mavericks known not only for their fighting skills, but for their offbeat personalities as well. Read more
