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Cloak and Dagger Mounties
By John ManciniIn the early morning of Monday, November 9, 1942, the german U-boat U-518 surfaced off the bleak Quebec coast. Read more
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The Florida Annexation
By Peter KrossAlmost a decade after winning the Revolutionary War against Great Britain, the youthful United States was determined to expand its territorial boundaries and become a truly continental nation. Read more
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Devils in the Forest
By William E. WelshThe German paratroopers marched the captured Canadian officer through the dark forest to the damp underground bunker that served as their platoon headquarters. Read more
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The Model 1857 12-pounder
By Gustav PersonAmong the historic inventory of the United States Army’s artillery weapons, few pieces have enjoyed a more predominant role or reputation than the Model 1857 12-pounder gun-howitzer, which became a mainstay of the Federal artillery during the Civil War. Read more
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Nuremburg Prosecutor
By Blaine TaylorOn March 23, 1991, at a reunion of the postwar Nuremberg International Military Tribunal staffers in Washington, I had occasion to meet the former American prosecutor, Brigadier General Telford Taylor. Read more
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Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, the Duke of Alva
By Matthew PeszekThe Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Netherlands, which lasted from 1568 to 1648, developed not only from economic difficulties but also from religious tensions that eventually resulted in several Dutch riots in 1566. Read more
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The Battle of Britain: WWII’s Most Consequential Campaign?
By Matthew J. BenedettiTwo decades after the carnage of the Great War, the world was again plunged into the cauldron of armed conflict. Read more
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Gas Masks of the Great War
By Peter SuciuWith World War I in a seeming stalemate, German forces in late April 1915 introduced a horrific new weapon to the fighting. Read more
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Blood In The Soil
By Glenn BarnettIn 1939 the one thing that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin could agree on was the partition of Poland. Read more
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The Great Baltimore Riot of 1812
One of Baltimore’s less flattering nicknames is “Mob Town,” and there have been several notable riots in the city’s history. Perhaps the least known of these riots was the first: the Great Baltimore Riot of 1812. Read more
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Third Reich Women at War
By Paul GarsonDuring the 12 years of the highly militarized society of the Third Reich, some 20 million Germans—men and women as well as children—donned a uniform of one kind or another. Read more
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Liberating Slaves in the U.S. Sloop of War Constellation
By Eric NiderostThe U.S. sloop of war Constellation was sailing off the coast of Africa, not far from the Congo River, and both officers and crew were enjoying a night so beautiful it seemed almost like a dream. Read more
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Sole Survivor
By Phil ScearceOn December 1, 1942, a 431st Bomb Squadron Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named Omar Khayyam – The Plastered Bastard took off from a base codenamed Cactus on a photo-reconnaissance mission toward enemy-held Bougainville Island in the Pacific. Read more
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Military Postcards
By Peter SuciuMany famous photos of military uniforms and personalities are actually taken from vintage postcards. And while today many vintage baseball or football cards can fetch thousands of dollars, military postcards essentially have been forgotten. Read more
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WWII: German Rations and Feeding the Troops of the Third Reich
By G. Paul GarsonIt was Napoleon Bonaparte who purportedly said, “An army travels on its stomach.” Toward the goal of feeding his particular army’s stomach more efficiently, in 1795 the French general came up with an interesting solution to the problem. Read more
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The Creation of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
By Lawrence WeberIn the spring of 1861, a group of influential northern men and women, led by Unitarian minister Henry Whitney Bellows and social reformer Dorothea Dix, met in New York City to discuss the formation of a sanitary commission, modeled after the British Sanitary Commission established during the Crimean War, to provide relief to sick and wounded soldiers in the Union Army. Read more
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Lend-Lease on the High Seas
By Glenn BarnettAt high tide on the night of March 28, 1942, an American-built British destroyer disguised as a German torpedo boat steamed boldly up the estuary of the Loire River in occupied France. Read more
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Caesar’s Grand Siege at Alesia
By Coley CowanAs Julius Caesar’s Roman army began its march on a late summer day in 52 BC in eastern France it discovered Gallic cavalry barring the way of its vanguard. Read more
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America’s trusty M1 Garand rifle was “Woven into the fabric of the nation.”
By David J. LittleAfter the Great War, in which American troops were sent into combat with either the bolt-action M1903 Springfield rifle or the bolt-action British Enfield, planners in the War Department realized that, if the United States were ever drawn in combat again, they would need a far superior weapon. Read more
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Bloody Assault on Knoxville
By Mike PhiferAt midnight on November 13, 1863, two companies of the Palmetto (South Carolina) Sharpshooters Regiment led by Captain Alfred Foster slipped down to the south bank of the Tennessee River at Huff’s Ferry. Read more
