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Frederick the Great & the Battle of Rossbach
By Vince HawkinsThe evening of June 18, 1757, found the remnants of Frederick the Great’s Prussian army in full flight toward the Kaiser-Strasse (Imperial Road) in Bohemia. Read more
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The Plot Against Einstein
By Eric NiderostWhen Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California, in early 1933, he was to take up his duties as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology for about three months. Read more
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‘Vat Goes on Here?’
By Kevin M. HymelOn a Belgian hillside at the height of the Battle of the Bulge, an American lieutenant watched as a jeep carrying four men dressed in American uniforms stopped on the road in front of him. Read more
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The Boy Who Got Rommel
By R. Douglas NunesField Marshal Erwin Rommel, the infamous “Desert Fox,” was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Army Group B on the Western Front and put in charge of strengthening the Normandy coastal defenses. Read more
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The Bloody Gilberts: ‘Another Road to Tokyo’
By Nathan N. PreferBy the spring of 1943, the Japanese advance across the Pacific had been brought to a halt. Read more
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The USS Zane
By Glenn BarnettMuch credit goes to the American ability to quickly manufacture the many ships and planes needed to fight the Pacific War and overwhelm the Japanese enemy. Read more
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Germans Seize Field Hospital at Bastogne
By Patrick J. ChaissonCaptain (Dr.) Willis P. McKee did not like what he was seeing. For several hours now, crowds of panicky civilians had been streaming past his unit’s tent hospital located at a crossroads eight miles northwest of Bastogne, Belgium. Read more
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Julius Boreali in Operation Overlord
By Brian BuckwalterJulius Boreali’s diary entry from May 29, 1944, is different from the more typical “calm sea, sun shining” entries that precede it: 12:30 am attacked by a group of German planes. Read more
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French Commandos Land on D-Day
By John E. SpindlerAboard one of two LCIs carrying French commandos approaching the Normandy coast, Lieutenant-Commander (Capitaine de Corvette) Philippe Kieffer looked at his watch. Read more
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Six World War II Book Reviews for Spring 2024
Full ReviewsPatton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 2 August-December 1944 (Kevin M. Hymel, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 2023, 467 pp., Read more
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Diary of a B-17 Tail Gunner
By Allyn VannoyJust after releasing their bomb-load, flak slammed into the B-17, causing it to go out of control, falling fast. Read more
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War Hospital
By Joseph LusterIt may not be set during World War II, but War Hospital fits the bill for the kind of unique experience we’re often looking for in comparable war games. Read more
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Task Force Admiral Vol. 1
By Joseph LusterBeloved sim publisher Microprose Software is back with another potential hit in the upcoming Task Force Admiral – Vol. Read more
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The Greek Holocaust
By Nathan N. PreferIn late 1940 and early 1941, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was concentrating on his next great conquest, the Soviet Union. Read more
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Luftwaffe Attacks Civilian DC-3
On the morning of June 1, 1943, the Douglas DC-3 lifted off from the airport at Lisbon in neutral Portugal. BOAC Flight 777 or Dutch KLM Flight 2L272, as it had been designated, carried 13 passengers and its crew on a flight bound for London. Read more
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A Sunlit Picture of Hell: Battle of the Somme
By O’Brien BrownEarly in the morning of July 1, 1916, a mist blanketed the lolling hills of the Somme region of northwestern France. Read more
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Philip vs Edward at the Battle of Crécy
By Robert SuhrPhilip of Valois, for long have we made suit before you by embassies and all other ways which we knew to be reasonable, to the end that you should be willing to have restored unto us our right, our heritage of France, which you have long kept back and most wrongfully occupied.” Read more
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The Gatling Gun: A Civil War Innovation
By A.B. FeuerRichard Gatling was born in Hertford County, NC, on December 12, 1818. His father was a prosperous farmer and inventor, and the son was destined to inherit the “invention bug.” Read more
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf: Oldendorf’s Textbook “Crossing the T”
By Donald J. Roberts II & Lawrence C. SchneiderIn 1944, following the American victories in the South Pacific of operational commanders General Douglas MacArthur in western New Guinea and Admiral Chester Nimitz in the Marianas, American planners considered the next offensive against Japan’s empire. Read more
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Byzantine Spies in the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars
By Arnold BlumbergByzantium, the successor state to ancient Rome, lasted over a thousand years. But it all could have been different because its first major enemy—Persia—was a fierce and determined competitor bent on the Empire’s demise. Read more
