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‘A Pretty Sharp Skirmish’ – Turning Point at Harlem Heights
By Joshua ShepherdA detachment of 230 rangers and riflemen scrambled up a rocky escarpment on New York’s Manhattan Island on the morning of September 16, 1776. Read more
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Six Days in Fallujah
By Joseph LusterDeveloper Highwire Games and publisher Victura have prided the shooter Six Days in Fallujah as the world’s first “documentary game” since it first hit Early Access back in June 2023. Read more
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Conflict of Nations: World War III
By Joseph LusterConflict of Nations: World War III is a grand long term strategy game that pits your military skills against up to 140 other players in expansive online multiplayer matches. Read more
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The Soviet Dunkirk: The Tallinn Offensive
By Victor J. KamenirEarly in World War II, a bitter joke circulated within the Soviet military. It ran, “What is the first thing Russia does when war is declared? Read more
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Escape into Arizona’s Desert: German Prisoners in World War II
By Adam LynchOn Christmas Eve, 1944, Colonel William Holden, commander of the prisoner of war camp at Phoenix, Arizona, suddenly lost all hope for a happy holiday. Read more
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A Great Soldier’s Last Victory
By Eric NiderostMaurice Hermann, Count of Saxony and Marshal of France, swept the horizon with his telescope, his gaze occasionally pausing on the villages of Vlijtingen and Lauffeld in the distance. Read more
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7 Military History Book Reviews for Spring 2025
Full ReviewsThe Farthest Valley: Escaping the Chinese Trap at the Chosin Reservoir (Joseph Wheelan, Osprey Publishing, Oxford UK, 2024, 384pp., Read more
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Screaming Eagles of Mercy
By Paul Woodadge and Kevin HymelAround noon on June 6, 1944, a German soldier wielding a machine gun burst into a small church six miles from Utah Beach in Normandy, France, ignoring the Red Cross flag hanging from the door. Read more
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The Rangers’ British Padre: Father Albert Basil
By Michael D. HullOne day shortly after the Battle of El Guettar in central Tunisia in March 1943, Colonel William O. Read more
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A Supporting Role in Patton’s Third Army
By Kevin M. HymelIf there was one thing frontline soldiers looked forward to after weeks of fighting in Europe’s mud and ice, it was a shower and a change of clothes. Read more
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The Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage
By Chuck LyonsOn an overcast February night in 1943, nine British-trained commandos worked their way down the icy slope of a ravine in southern Norway. Read more
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The Haversack Ruse In Gaza Impressed Even Lawrence Of Arabia
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.Since the days of the Trojan Horse, military deception and ruse have been effective instruments when used by an innovative commander to deceive and defeat an enemy, minimizing friendly casualties and expenditure of valuable resources in the process. Read more
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Gallant Defense of Guam
By John J. DomagalskiAs the ruins of the Navy’s Pacific Fleet were still burning at Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes appeared over the island of Guam some 4,000 miles to the west where, across the International Date Line, it was already December 8, 1941. Read more
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Unsung Battleships
By Mark CarlsonSome of the 64 battleships built by the U.S. Navy in the 20th century, such as the iconic Maine, Arizona, and Missouri, have earned a place in history while most have long since faded into obscurity for all but their crews. Read more
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Tiger’s First Defeat
By Ian MitchellEarly on the morning of January 31, 1943, Lt. Stanley Edwards, a troop commander in the British 72nd Anti-Tank (AT) Regiment, was roused with news that enemy tanks were moving through their isolated valley in northern Tunisia. Read more
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P-51 Pilot Jim Frolking
By Philip HandlemanAntiaircraft tracers screamed past Jim Frolking’s P-51 Mustang as he flew over the coast of occupied Holland, heading back to England after escorting a bombing run. Read more
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‘Bloody Bucket’ at Colmar
By Dr. Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.Not long after they landed at Normandy in July 1944, Pennsylvania’s 28th Infantry Division earned a begrudging nickname from their German foes in the hedgerows—the “Bloody Bucket Division,” after their blood-red “Keystone” shoulder patches and vicious fighting tactics. Read more
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10 World War II Book Reviews for Spring 2025
By Christopher Miskimon Full ReviewsFury and Ice: Greenland, The United States and Germany in World War II (Peter Harmsen, Casemate Publishing, Havertown PA, 2024, 224 pp., Read more
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The Battle of Point Judith: ‘They were all good boys’
By Dave KindyClary Edwards was rousted from bed at 5 a.m. by the sound of loud pounding. Wearing only shorts, he opened the front door of his home in New London, Connecticut, to find the unwelcome view of the Shore Patrol. Read more
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USS Squalus rises after fatal tragedy.
By Michael E. HaskewIt was a problem the U.S. Navy thought they had solved after several deadly incidents during the pre-World War II evolution of its submarine service—the frightening situation of a submerged submarine taking on water. Read more
