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Was Leon Degrelle a Traitor of Belgium, or a German Army Hero?
By Richard RuleLeon Degrelle was born in 1906 in Belgium to a prosperous family in the French-speaking region of Wallonia. Read more
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Fort Necessity: George Washington’s First Defeat
By Kevin M. HymelGeorge Washington looked down at the surrender documents. They were soaked from pouring rain and the ink was splotched. Read more
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Petropavlovsk: The Crimean War’s Forgotten Battle
By Mark N. LardasThe Crimean War is usually considered a Black Sea conflict, but it actually took place on several frontiers of the Russian empire, including the Baltic and White Seas. Read more
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Adolf Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard at Mortain
By Major General Michael ReynoldsBy the morning of July 27, 1944, General Omar Bradley’s First U.S. Army had won the “Battle of the Hedgerows” in Normandy and stood ready to break out to the south. Read more
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How the Allies Used Captured German Tanks and Vehicles
By Christopher MiskimonGeijsteren Castle sits north of the Dutch town of Venlo on the banks of the Meuse River. In late 1944, the castle was a strongpoint in the local German defenses and under attack by elements of the British Sixth Guards Tank Brigade. Read more
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Leningrad & Tikhvin: Nazi Winter Repulse During Operation Barbarossa
By Pat Mc TaggartThe men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941. Read more
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Ernest Hemingway and the Ivy Leaguers in World War II
By Charles WhitingDuring the second week of July 1944 a young, sharp Lieutenant Goldstein of the 4th Infantry Division’s 22nd Infantry Regiment was told by his boss, Colonel Buck Lanhan, “Expect a special civilian, a big war correspondent is coming to visit us. Read more
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Wilhelm I, Accidental King of Prussia
By Blaine TaylorIn mid-October 1806, four days after Napoleon had crushed the Royal Prussian Army at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstädt, a distraught Queen Louise sat down with her two sons at the royal castle in Schwedt. Read more
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Like Apples Fallen In Autumn: The Battle of Shrewsbury
By Al HemingwayBy the middle of July 1403, a series of seemingly inevitable events had led two armies to a field near the small and hitherto unheralded village of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, approximately 150 miles northwest of London. Read more
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The Garand ‘Ping’
By John BrylorAn iconic infantry weapon of World War II, the M-1 Garand rifle developed a reputation for placing substantial firepower in the hands of a single soldier. Read more
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Last of the Gray Phantoms: The Confederate Blockade Runners
By R. Thomas CampbellDespite the increasing effectiveness of the Union naval blockade, more and more steamers plied the waters between the few remaining Confederate ports and Nassau, St. Read more
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The Assault on Pillbox Hill
By Daniel R. ChampagneStaff Sergeant Audie Murphy advanced inland from the beaches of southern France with his rifle platoon until, near the small town of Ramatuelle, intense machine-gun and small-arms fire from a boulder covered hill forced them to hit the dirt. Read more
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The B-32 Dominator
By John E. SpindlerSergeant Anthony Marchione, an aerial photographer, felt vulnerable as the Japanese fired on the aircraft he was aboard for this August 18, 1945 sortie. Read more
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Alexandria: Redcoats in the Land of the Pharaohs
By Eric NiderostIt was a spectacle never to be forgotten by those few who were lucky enough to witness it. Read more
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Military Intelligence: The Civil War Provost Guard
By John WennerWith the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Civil War began in earnest. The first recruits, on both sides, were completely uninitiated in the ways of military life. Read more
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Opening Battle of World War II
By Peter ZablockiThe fog that descended over the Westerplatte peninsula in the Bay of the Free City of Danzig, Poland, on August 31, 1939, refused to lift as if trying to stop the night from making way for a new day. Read more
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14 World War II Book Reviews for Summer 2025
By Christopher Miskimon Full ReviewsLeyte Gulf: A New History of the World’s Largest Sea Battle (Mark Stille, Osprey Books, Oxford UK, 2025, 320 pp., Read more
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Italian Convoy Intercepted
By Glenn BarnettBy April 1941, Great Britain had been at war for 19 months. Although nurtured and nourished by her empire, she took all the body blows from an increasingly vicious enemy. Read more
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Vera Lynn
By Alan DavidgeAnother concert in a hospital ward for more British soldiers–this time for wounded from the front line near Kohima, brought down to Dimapur for treatment. Read more
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To Field an Army: A Short History of the Draft
By Mike HaskewThe call of a nation on its civilian population either to create a military force or to augment a standing army is virtually as old as civilization itself. Read more
