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Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force
By Christopher MiskimonZ Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force (Gavin Mortimer, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2022, 240 pp., Read more
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Marching From Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union 1944
By Christopher MiskimonClaus Neuber served as an artillery officer in the German Army on the Eastern Front. In June 1944, the Soviets launched Operation Bagration, a massive offensive which crushed German Army Group Center. Read more
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The Longest Struggle
By Michael D. HullFor the duration of World War II, from the evening of Sunday, September 3, 1939, to the evening of Monday, May 7, 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic never ceased. Read more
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The Fall of Tyre
By Alexander ZakrzewskiAs Alexander the Great marched his army south along the Levantine coast in January 332 bc, he must have felt as if the fates were unquestionably on his side. Read more
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Forrest’s Finest Hour
By Mike PhiferConfederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s fighting blood was up. It was mid-morning on June 10, 1864, and the Tennessean cavalry commander had just hurried Colonel Hylan Lyon’s brigade of Kentuckians from along the muddy Baldwyn road toward Brice’s Crossroads in northern Mississippi. Read more
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Showdown In The Aleutians
By Phil ZimmerWith a sharp clatter of machine guns, the Japanese marines announced their presence by spraying bullets into the isolated U.S. Read more
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A Flash of Sabers
By Alexander ZakrzewskiOn the foggy morning of November 30, 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, watched impatiently as his Grande Armée lumbered up the rocky slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains of central Spain. Read more
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James Longstreet’s Daring Advance
By Arnold BlumbergThe column of Confederates marched east as quietly as possible along the bed of an unfinished railroad that knifed through the Wilderness south of the Rapidan River shortly before midday on May 6, 1864. Read more
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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
