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Claringbould and Ingman’s ‘Solomons Air War Volume 1’
By Christopher MiskimonAt 1 p.m. on August 7, 1942, Lieutenant (jg) Gordon Firebaugh took off from the carrier USS Enterprise leading six Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters. Read more
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Tom Hutton’s ‘Hitler’s Maladies’
By Christopher MiskimonBy April 1945, Hitler suffered from several mental and physical ailments. These included an advanced case of Parkinson’s Disease, heart disease, and gastrointestinal disorders along with other minor illnesses. Read more
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The Battle of Chosin Reservoir: The Korean War’s Hills of Hell
By Eric HammelThe 1st Marine Division was on the move toward the Yalu River. With any luck, if the weather cooperated, the Korean War, or rather, the United Nations police action in Korea, would be over in weeks. Read more
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Rolling the Dice: Robert E. Lee at Petersburg
By Joseph E. LowryBy the early spring of 1865, the Southern Confederacy was on the cusp of extinction. In every theater of the four-year-old Civil War, the gray-clad Rebels were getting the worst of things. Read more
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From the Publisher
From the PublisherWelcome to WWII History’s new format and publishing frequency—you’ll now find more pages, and more stories, in each issue. Read more
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World War I’s Second Battle of Ypres: Salient of Death
By Mike PhiferDespite the incessant German shelling that had been hammering away at the French lines to their immediate left near the rubble-strewn city of Ypres in northwestern Belgium, the largely untested soldiers of the Canadian 1st Division found the early spring day of April 22, 1915, surprisingly warm and pleasant. Read more
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Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great’s Assault on the Persians
By Marc G. De SantisIt was the autumn of 333 bc and Alexander the Great stood triumphant on the battlefield of Issus. Read more
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Famous Soldiers: Shih Huang-ti
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckWhen rebel peasants under a charismatic army deserter named Liu Pang descended on the capital city of Hsien Yang in 206 bc, they did so under the considerable shadow of the Ch’in dynasty’s former ruler, Shih Huang-ti. Read more
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Stately Minuet of Death: Maurice de Saxe at Fontenoy
By Vince HawkinsIn the Age of Reason, even wars were fought reasonably. Well-ordered marches, carefully dressed ranks of impeccably turned-out soldiers, and elaborately sketched battle plans were the order of the day in the so-called “lace wars” of the mid-18th century. Read more
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WWII Spies: Oreste Pinto
By Robert WhiterTwo men were seated on either side of a paper-strewn table inside an office of MI5, the British intelligence service, in the Royal Victoria Patriotic School at Clapham, London, shortly after the fall of France in the spring of 1940. Read more
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King Charles I: Decision at Naseby
By Arnold BlumbergBy the spring of 1645, the open warfare between King Charles I and his rebellious Parliament had dragged on for nearly three years, with no apparent end in sight. Read more
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George Washington and Lord Cornwallis at Germantown
By Eric NiderostOn a gloomy Friday morning, September 26, 1777, an advance party of the British Army marched into Philadelphia to take possession of the city. Read more
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The U.S. Splinter Fleet
By A.B. FeuerWhen the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the nation’s Navy was shockingly short of combat ships—particularly the submarine chasers that would be vital to combating the German U-boat menace. Read more
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Shaky Stand at Bladensburg
By Blaine TaylorThe British Army of soldiers, Royal Marines and naval infantry—actually sailors from His Majesty’s Navy fighting on dry land with musket, pike and cutlass—were marching full-tilt for the capital of the United States this hot, sweltering August 24, 1814. Read more
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The “George Medal” and Guadalcanal
by R.D. Camp Jr.In the long and distinguished history of the U.S. Marine Corps, thousands of marines have been awarded medals for meritorious service on the battlefield. Read more
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Ambrose Powell Hill: His Greatest Action at the Battle of Antietam
By William E. WelshBy mid-afternoon on September 17, 1862, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in mortal combat on the rolling hills overlooking the sluggish waters of Antietam Creek in northwestern Maryland. Read more
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King Gustavus Adolphus, Breitenfeld, and the Birthplace of Modern War
By Louis CiotolaOn a hot, dusty September morning in 1631, the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor rested easily on the plains outside the village of Breitenfield, six miles north of Leipzig, Saxony. Read more
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Union Soldiers in the Civil War: Camping Along the Potomac
Photo Essay By Kevin M. HymelBefore the fighting even began, before the first impassioned chorus of “On to Richmond!” was raised by the men in blue, the soldiers comprising the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War had to create their own precarious living quarters in the forested wilderness of the eastern seaboard. Read more
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“The Other Napoleon Bonaparte” at the Battle of Waterloo
By Blaine TaylorOn April 23, 1809, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, a German satellite state given to him by his elder brother Emperor Napoleon I, sat astride a large white horse at the Holland Gate leading into the capital city of Cassel. Read more
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R.D. Hooker Jr’s ‘Conquer We Must’
By Christopher MiskimonThe author enlisted in the U.S. Army at 18 in 1975. He later went to West Point and gained a commission. Read more
