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Bloody Clash On The Lomba
By William StroockWith its pro-Western ally in southern Angola facing destruction by an all-out communist offensive in 1987, Apartheid South African President P.W. Read more
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Drive to Messina
By Phil ZimmerSergeant Alfred Johnson peered from behind a boulder on a rock-strewn hillside at Piano Lupo about six miles inland from the southern coast of Sicily. Read more
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Russia’s Four Immortal Generals
By Victor KamenirIn 1242, Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky faced the armored might of the Teutonic knights. Generals Alexander Suvorov and Peter Kotlyarevski were Napoleon’s contemporaries, while General Mikhail Skobelev exemplified the panache of the Victorian Era. Read more
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Yelling Like Demons
By Mike PhiferMajor General James Ewell Brown Stuart was in all his glory. It was June 8, 1863, and the Confederate cavalry commander was putting on a grand review of his horse soldiers on a plain west of the Rappahannock River near Brandy Station, Virginia, for none other than General Robert E. Read more
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The 45th Infantry Division’s Desperate Defense at Anzio
By Christopher MiskimonThe sunrise on February 16, 1944, dawned foggy over the Via Anziate—the only highway between Anzio and Rome. Read more
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Death on a High Bluff
By Mike PhiferIt was almost dark when Captain Chase Philbrick led a reconnaissance party of 20 volunteers from Company H of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry across to Harrison’s Island situated in the middle of the Potomac River. Read more
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Battle of Kadesh: Clash of the Chariot Armies
By Erich B. AndersonIn the cold, early morning of a day in late May 1274 bc, the Egyptian troops of the Re corps were abruptly awoken with shouts, kicks, or nudges. Read more
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Death of Himmler’s Henchman
By Richard RuleIn a desperate bid to avoid another war in Europe, both Britain and France signed the notorious Munich Agreement in 1938, which annexed the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. Read more
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Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs from the Second World War
By Christopher MiskimonA trio of Soviet T-26 light tanks sit isolated in a field, green grass reaching the tops of their tracks. Read more
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The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion: Fighting on Both Fronts
By Christopher MiskimonThe men of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion fought two opponents during World War II. From the moment they began their training in 1942, the African American soldiers assigned to the unit faced the prejudice endemic in American society of the time, and by extension the United States Army. Read more
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To Conquer a Fortress
By Bastiaan WillemsThe storming of Fortress Königsberg in April 1945 was the finale of a two-month Soviet siege. The city, one of the few triumphs of Hitler’s fortress strategy, had been encircled by late January and lay hundreds of kilometers behind the main front line by the time the Soviets launched their final assault toward the Nazi capital of Berlin. Read more
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Conquering the Queen City
By Pedro GarciaThe victory at Manassas on July 21, 1861, had made the Rebels overconfident bordering on lethargic. As one observer noted, “It created a paralysis of enterprise that was more damaging than disaster was for the North.” Read more
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Terrible Slaughter at Waterloo
By David A. NorrisWith two hours of daylight left, French Emperor Napoleon I saw his chance to make the Battle of Waterloo his greatest victory. Read more
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The M79 Grenade Launcher
By Blaine TaylorI fired the M79 grenade launcher in advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in 1965, and had one on the back seat of my machine-gun jeep during my tour of duty in South Vietnam in 1966-1967 as a member of the U.S. Read more
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Desperate Days On Hill 314
By Alan DavidgeWhen the 230th Field Artillery Battalion was attached to the 30th Infantry (“Old Hickory”) Division in Mortain, France, on August 6, 1944, many of its men had already received their baptism of fire in Normandy. Read more
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A Deplorable Affair
By John WalkerAs dawn broke on April 12, 1864, the Union garrison manning Fort Pillow, a small redoubt on a cliff overlooking the Mississippi River in West Tennessee, found itself surrounded by 1,500 Confederate cavalrymen led by Maj. Read more
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Letters From The Eastern Front
By Horst Fuchs RichardsonBackstory: My father, Karl Fuchs, was a German soldier in World War II who fought and died on the Eastern Front. Read more
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“Like A Picture Of Hell”
By Chuck LyonsThe two Union generals faced each other on the afternoon of May 1, 1863, at the large house by the Orange Turnpike that had been chosen as the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Read more
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On the trail of the Amber Room
Nearly 20 years ago, I met a fellow in Germany (we’ll call him “Hans”) who was on his life’s quest to find one of mankind’s greatest treasures and solve one of WWII’s greatest mysteries—the fabulous Amber Room. Read more
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Soldiers of God
By John WalkerIn November 1177, Saladin launched his first significant military campaign against a crusader state. With 26,000 men, siege engines, a huge baggage train, and his own personal force of elite Mamluk bodyguards, Saladin marched his Ayyubid army across the Sinai Desert from Egypt into southern Palestine. Read more
