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Passenger Liners in the Great War
By John ProtasioWorld War I was a total war; Nearly every person and resource was caught up in the conflict. Read more
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Target: Sainte-Mere-Eglise
By Flint WhitlockThe night of June 5/6, 1944, was pretty much like every other night since the Germans had occupied Normandy and the Cotentin Peninsula in the summer of 1940: dark, quiet, chilly, and mostly boring. Read more
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Disaster at Fort Donelson
By Mike PhiferA signal rocket set off by Confederate pickets streaked skyward in the damp early morning of February 4, 1862. Read more
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Reading Nazi Radar
By Neil TaylorTo the crews of the Royal Air Force Bomber Stream Droning Toward Germany in the early morning hours of December 3, 1942, this mission seemed indistinguishable from the countless others that had preceded it. Read more
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Bertrand du Guesclin
By William E. WelshOne month after the disastrous French defeat at Poitiers in September 1356, a large English army besieged Rennes in eastern Brittany. Read more
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Costly Confederate Victory at Gaines’ Mill
By John WalkerWith just an hour of daylight remaining on the smoke-shrouded battlefield near Gaines’ Mill six miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Read more
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Ten Minutes Over Truk
By Chris MarksLieutenant Hollis Hills had every reason to be puzzled. His guns had just raked the Japanese fighter ahead of him, the rounds striking home along the enemy’s fuselage and wing roots. Read more
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Furious Charge Against Malakoff
By Charles HilbertThe Ottoman Empire of Sultan Abd al-Majid I was in decline. Less than 200 years before, it had reached its high water mark in 1683 when Ottoman armies surrounded the walls of Vienna, only to be beaten back by the forces of Jan Sobieski, King of Poland, and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, who were bankrolled by Pope Innocent XI and the Holy League. Read more
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Tracings Of Barbarossa
By Kevin M. HymelOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, showed the world the extent of Nazi brutality. Read more
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Thomas O. Selfridge: A Naval Hero of the Civil War
By James M. PowlesMarch 8, 1862, dawned sunny and mild at Hampton Roads, Virginia. To the men of the Union blockading squadron, the day seemed like any other. Read more
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German Fighter Ace Gordon Gollob
By William E. WelshGerman Luftwaffe pilot First Lieutenant Gordon Gollob moved in for the kill at midafternoon on December 18, 1939, with his Messerschmitt Bf 110 against a formation of seven British Vickers Wellington medium bombers heading home from their bomb run against German battle cruisers in Wilhelmshaven harbor. Read more
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Weapons of War: the War Hammer
By William McPeakNot to be confused with Mjollnir, the mythical Norse god Thor’s fabled hammer, the real-life war hammer was a brutal and effective weapon. Read more
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Manstein’s Victorious Panzers
By William E. WelshDeep snow blanketed the steppes surrounding the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov on February 6, 1943. The soldiers of Major Kurt Meyer’s reconnaissance battalion of SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler shivered from the cold. Read more
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Streets Sewn with Bodies: Wellington at Fuentes de Onoro
By Mike PhiferIt had been a brutal winter for the French Army of Portugal. War and hunger had haunted the occupiers, causing their number to dwindle by the thousands. Read more
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Rivals of the River Plate
By David H. LippmanThe four ships that raced into battle on December 13, 1939, off the mouth of the River Plate were, as historian and novelist Len Deighton tartly observed, “three different answers to the question that had plagued the world’s navies for half a century: what should a cruiser be?” Read more
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Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
By Eric NiderostThe name Gaius Suetonius Paulinus doesn’t ring across the centuries from the annals of Roman military history like the names of Julius Caesar, Tiberius Nero, or Scipio Africanus. Read more
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The “Tough ‘Ombres” of 90th ID Stand Tall at Mairy
By Christopher MiskimonAs summer neared its end in early September 1944, the U.S. Army raced across northern France toward the German border. Read more
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One Gallant Rush: Black Soldiers at Fort Wagner
By Eric NiderostThe sun had already set, but the western sky was still bright from its fiery departure not long before. Read more
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Wreaking Havoc
By Sam McGowanFew airplanes can claim the honor of being credited with changing the course of World War II, but the Douglas A-20 Havoc twin-engine light bomber is one that can. Read more
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Revenge at Falkirk
By Charles HilberStanding 6 feet 2 inches tall with a fiery temper, English King Edward I was an imposing and intimidating figure. Read more
