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Martin Dugard’s ‘Taking Midway’
By Kevin SeabrookeIn a basement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a team of unconventional military cryptographers known as Station Hypo are led by Lt.-Com. Read more
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Montel Williams’ ‘The Sailing of the Intrepid’
By Kevin SeabrookeNearly 40 years before she was towed to New York City’s Pier 86 to become a permanent part of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June 1982, the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) was launched from the shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. Read more
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Brennan S. Deveraux’s ‘Exterminating ISIS’
By Kevin Seabrooke“In 2016, I was responsible for the deaths of over 600 people. But they deserved to die—all of them. Read more
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Rick Atkinson’s ‘The Fate of the Day’
By Kevin SeabrookePulitzer prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson’s second volume of his Revolution Trilogy, covering the middle years of the Revolution. Read more
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Operation Jupiter: The Fight for the Key to Normandy
By Jon LatimerThe Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, produced a bitter struggle for control of the invasion beachhead. Read more
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Were P-47 Thunderbolt Aircraft Really Formidable Fighter-Bombers?
By Sam McGowanSince the end of World War II, the aviation press has made the North American P-51 Mustang into the superstar Allied fighter of the war. Read more
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Long Shadows at Ball’s Bluff
By Cowan BrewFor all his great political skills, Abraham Lincoln was a man who made few close personal friends. He was both too private and too ambitious to court a large number of intimate acquaintances. Read more
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Rose O’Neal Greenhow: The Spy Who Won Bull Run
By David Alan Johnson“But for you, there would have been no Battle of Bull Run.” When Confederate President Jefferson Davis made that blanket statement in the summer of 1862, he was not addressing Pierre G.T. Read more
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Company B’s Tunisian Adventure
By Christopher MiskimonFor the United States Army, the long road to Germany began in the mountainous deserts of Tunisia in mid-November 1942. Read more
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Any Bonds Today?
By Herb KugelOne of the most unusual baseball games ever played was a three- way game in New York City between the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Read more
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Marines at the Battle of Guantanamo Bay
By A.B. FeuerThe capture of Guantànamo Bay, Cuba, by U.S. Marines in 1898 was a brief but violent phase of the Spanish-American War. Read more
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Valor in the Valley of Death
By Kevin SeabrookeFor about half an hour artillery and rockets fired from UH-1B helicopters from the Aerial Rocket Artillery battalion had pounded an area in Vietnam’s Central Highlands between Chu Pong, the 1,000-foot massif straddling the border with Cambodia, and the Ia Drang River. Read more
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The U.S. Army Medical Corps: Caring for the Casualties in World War II
By Glenn BarnettFor centuries wounded soldiers of every nation were responsible for much of their own care. Medical attention was primitive and often not a high priority for military planners beyond the officer corps. Read more
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In the Shadow of Sunrise: The Secret Surrender of Italy
By Dennis WhiteheadOn the morning of Friday, April 13, 1945, three men gathered at a table in L’Espadon of the Ritz Paris over a breakfast of coffee and croissants. Read more
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Prelude to Stalemate: The First Battle of Ypres
By Eric NiderostNews that the Germans had been halted at the Marne River, a scant 30 miles from Paris, filled France and Britain with a sense of joy and relief. Read more
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Heavy Roman Cavalryman, First Century CE
Artwork: Johnny ShumateRoman cavalry before 400 BCE was recruited from the aristocracy in limited numbers. As the cavalry expanded, recruits came from beyond the aristocracy. Read more
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The OSS and the Fourth Dimension of Warfare
By Bob BerginMajor General John K. Singlaub was a young airborne lieutenant when he took up an offer from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to become engaged in “hazardous duty behind enemy lines.” Read more
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Hazardous Duty with the Naval Armed Guard
By Russell CorderThey have been called “the other Navy,” the “Navy’s stepchildren,” and perhaps most fittingly, “the forgotten Navy.” Officially, however, they were the Naval Armed Guard or more simply the Armed Guard (AG). Read more
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Mark Stille’s ‘Leyte Gulf’
By Christopher MiskimonHistory often remarks on the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato, but her sister ship, the Musashi, suffered a similar fate at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Read more
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Lewkowicz with Calvin’s ‘The Survivor’
By Christopher MiskimonThe author was a starving teenage boy, enslaved by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp. Over the years of his captivity, he spent time in six different camps. Read more
