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Heroic Stand at Verdun
By Mark CarlsonThe morning of June 23, 1916, dawned over the broad crenellated valley of the Meuse River in northeastern France. Read more
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Wolfpack
By Joseph LusterSome World War II games give you control over an entire battlefield, or offer you an abundance of vehicular options that you can easily swap between at any given moment. Read more
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Royalist Reckoning at Naseby
By Joshua ShepherdLate on the evening of June 13, 1645, King Charles I convened a hurried council with senior officers of the Royalist army at the village of Market Harborough in England’s East Midlands. Read more
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Vanguard: Normandy 1944
By Joseph LusterIf you’re looking for a historically-accurate World War II shooter, the team at Pathfinder Games has your back with Vanguard: Normandy 1944. Read more
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Letters from Oblivion: Auschwitz and Buchenwald
By Katrina ShawverHenry Zguda, a Polish Catholic, spent three and a half years interned at Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a political prisoner. Read more
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Hitler’s Experience in the Trenches of the Great War
By Kirk A. FreemanIn the months before the outbreak of World War I, 25-year-old Adolf Hitler was living the starving artist’s life in the Bavarian city of Munich, selling his paintings door-to-door and in the city’s numerous beer halls. Read more
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Codebreaking Sergeant Richard
By Patrick J. ChaissonWewak Convoy 21 was being annihilated, and the Japanese Army could do nothing to stop it.
The first vessel to die was Yakumo Maru. Read more
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Ambush at Oriskany
By Eric NiderostThe young Oneida warrior paused, tensing as he spotted some activity in the forest just in front of him. Read more
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The 28th Infantry Division Stands
By Nathan N. PreferOn September 16, 1944, Adolf Hitler revealed his master plan for reversing Germany’s declining fortunes in the West during World War II. Read more
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Stand-up Fight at Peachtree Creek
By Arnold BlumbergDuring the early afternoon of July 9, 1864, the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Maj. Gen. John M. Read more
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First Sustained Nuclear Reaction
By Eric NiderostEnrico Fermi’s face was a study in concentration as his fingers deftly moved across the well-worn surface of his slide rule. Read more
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Cortés Exacts His Revenge
By John WalkerAs the year 1520 drew to a close, the half-starved inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, the magnificent capital city of the most powerful city-state in the Aztec Empire, found that they were threatened by a massive host of enemies, both foreign and indigenous, which was led by Spanish Captain-General Hernán Cortés and his small band of conquistadors. Read more
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The Borkum Island Massacre and Trial
By William R. HoganOn August 4, 1944, a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress heavy bomber, tail number 43-37909, so new that it did not have a nickname or nose art yet, took off from England on a bombing run over Germany that would end in a crash landing on Borkum Island in the North Sea. Read more
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Roman Disaster at Carrhae
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckGigantic clouds of dust rose from the sun-baked plain. The ground shook under the hoofs of thousands of cavalry. Read more
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Major General Edward L. Spears
By Jon DiamondOn May 22, 1940, within a fortnight of being appointed Britain’s prime minister, Winston S. Churchill was confronted with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under Lord Gort, retreating from Belgium. Read more
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Revolutionary France’s Opening Salvo
By Victor KamenirThe French Revolution of 1789, which began as a peaceful process of social and financial reform, rapidly descended into internal strife and violence. Read more
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Slaughter in the Sunda Strait
By David H. LippmanIt was nearly over. Since Singapore had fallen to the Japanese on February 14, 1942, the Allied forces defending the Dutch East Indies had battled against a Japanese pincer-like movement, which consisted of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, aircraft, and well-trained “Special Naval Landing Forces”—Japan’s version of American and British Marines. Read more
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Soldiers: General Peter Bagration
By Victor KamenirRussian General Peter Ivanovich Bagration was one of those rare commanders who received near-universal praise from his contemporaries outside of Russia. Read more
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Conrad Veidt Lived Out His Anti-Nazi Commitment
The 1942 film Casablanca remains one of the most popular Hollywood creations of all time, immortalizing the characters played by Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine) and Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund). Read more
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The Death of Prince William of Orange
By William E. WelchOn Sunday, March 18, 1582, 37-year-old Dutch Stadholder Prince William of Orange attended a festive luncheon in his palace in Antwerp to celebrate the birthday of major ally French Duke Francis of Anjou, who had arrived in the Low Countries the previous month to support the Dutch in their rebellion against the Spanish crown. Read more
