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Smokescreens: Fighting for Metz
By Jon LatimerWith the defeat of the German Seventh Army and the closing of the Falaise Gap in the summer of 1944, the Allies pursued the retreating enemy across France. Read more
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An Acre of Massacre: The Second Boer War’s Battle of Spion Kop
By Herman T. VoelknerThe century of conflict that would introduce the concept of total war to the world had its bloody roots on an obscure hilltop in the remote South African veldt. Read more
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Battle of Rennell Island: A Fiery End for the USS Chicago
by John DomagalskiWith bond clerk Marge Henning standing by as a witness, Colonel Frank Eldridge removed the first piece of the puzzle. Read more
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“Viva El Cinco de Mayo!” The Battle of Puebla
By Ron GilliamA hard, late-afternoon rain was falling on May 5, 1862, and the slopes at the foot of Puebla, Mexico’s twin forts were too slippery for another assault. Read more
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The OSS’ Operation Cardinal: Locating General Jonathan Wainwright
By John ManciniOn May 6, 1942, in the Malinta Tunnel, Corregidor Island, General Jonathan Wainwright waited for the Japanese to respond to his surrender offer with a cease-fire. Read more
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Sergeant Amos Humiston at Gettysburg
By Kevin HymelTwo brigades of Confederate soldiers crested a slight hill above a wheat field and looked down on the blue clad soldiers waiting for them in the brickyard below. Read more
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“Hurrah, Over You Go Again!”: The High Seas Battle of Portland
By Keith MiltonFor nearly a century, England and the Netherlands were longtime allies in the Eighty Years’ War against the Spanish Empire. Read more
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WWII Veterans: Donald L. Varsaw, From Shanghai to Corregidor
By Eric NiderostDonald L. Versaw joined the U.S. Marine Corps on Armistice Day, November 11, 1939. After basic training and a stint in the Marine Corps Operating Base Band in San Diego, he was sent overseas to join the Fourth Marines Band in Shanghai. Read more
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Siege of Rhodes: The Will Of The Hospitallers
By William McPeakAlthough the great Crusades were over by 1309 ad, one old crusading order continued to evolve, flourish, and make enemies—the Knights Hospitallers of St. Read more
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The Battle of Brody: Disaster Along WWII’s Eastern Front
by Pat McTaggartThe German Army found itself facing a massive challenge in the spring of 1944, just months before its total disaster at the Battle of Brody — they were facing the possibility of a war on three fronts. Read more
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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
