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Night of Devastation
By David Alan JohnsonThe first word of the incoming Luftwaffe raid arrived at about 10:45 p.m. on the night of Saturday, May 10, 1941. Read more
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Trapping the Bismarck
By John ProtasioBaron Burkhard von Mullenheim-Rechberg’s life was in danger. An officer aboard the German battleship Bismarck, Mullenheim-Rechberg was at his station as his ship was trading salvos with several British warships. Read more
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Tough Stand of the Golden Lions
By Nathan N. PreferWhen the men of the newly arrived 106th Infantry “Golden Lions” Division arrived on the front lines near St. Read more
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From the Ardennes to Austria
By Christopher MiskimonThe paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute InfantryRegiment (3/506), 101st Airborne Division fought long and hard during Operation Market-Garden, the Allied assault through Holland aimed at piercing into northern Germany and ending the war. Read more
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The meatgrinder of the Hürtgen Forest bedeviled American forces in the autumn of 1944.
Seventy-eight years ago, the U.S. First Army was embroiled in the longest battle of World War II fought on German soil. Read more
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“Rally Round My White Plumes”
By Louis CiotolaOn March 14, 1590, King Henry IV of France achieved his greatest military victory on the field of Ivry. Read more
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Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer in Afghanistan
By William E. WelshMoonlight bathed the dusty narrow path leading into the village of Ganjal shortly before sunrise on September 8, 2009, as nearly 100 soldiers climbed out of more than a dozen vehicles a mile from the seemingly peaceful village. Read more
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Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
By Mark CarlsonWith all it had going for it, how did Germany manage to lose World War II? There are many answers to this deceptively simple question, including the obvious one that the Allies had the technical and industrial advantage. Read more
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Unstoppable God Of War Alexander At Issus
By Charles HilbertThose rare qualities that set the extraordinary military commanders apart from the average ones were present in Alexander the Great, wrote the Greek historian Arrian, who drew on the account of Alexander’s general, Ptolemy. Read more
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Napoleon’s Old Guard Infantry
By William E. WelshWhen Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul of France in December 1799, he consolidated the two seperate guard bodies, one for the directory and one for the legislature, into the Guarde des Consuls. Read more
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Roger Sauvage & Normandie Niemen
By Glenn Barnett and André BernoleRoger Sauvage was born in Paris in 1917 to a white Parisian woman and a black soldier from Martinique. Read more
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The Northern Foe
By Louis CiotolaThe stereotypical Viking and his method of warfare have long been etched in the popular mind. Images of hairy, axe-wielding, and horned-helmeted barbarians raiding coastlines amid a frenzy of rape and pillage have for centuries filled our collective consciousness, as well as our desire to be entertained. Read more
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The Colt 1911
By Christopher MiskimonPetty Officer R. J. Thomas, a U.S. Navy SEAL, wound up in deep trouble one day in 1969. Read more
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The Luftwaffe’s Sturmvogel
By David H. LippmanAn American advertising poster for one of their bombers showed a cartoon of a smiling pilot over the captioned question, “Who’s afraid of the big Focke-Wulf?” Read more
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Briton Warrior Queen Boudicca
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckThe lash bit into the flesh of the woman’s back, beaten raw by metal balls tied into the ends of leather thongs. Read more
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Death in the Italian Vineyards
By William E. WelshAs the sun dipped low in the west on August 13, 1799, Russian Field Marshal Count Alexander Suvorov rode slowly south towards the heights on which was perched the walled town of Novi, in Italy’s Piedmont region. Read more
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Captain George Tennant, Dunkirk Architect
By Jon DiamondAs aptly stated by historian Max Hastings in his book Warriors, “the leaders most readily admired by fellow-soldiers are those who seem committed to do their duty, and also to bring every possible man home alive.” Read more
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Athenian Glory at Marathon
By Erich B. AndersonIn 491 bc, heralds sent by Persian Emperor Darius I traveled throughout Greece with a message for each of the city-states of the Greek peninsula. Read more
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Imperial Ambition Denied
By Eric NiderostFrederick Barbarossa, Emperor of the Romans and one of the great rulers of the Middle Ages, was in the midst of a battle that might determine the fate of Northern Italy. Read more
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Back-room Genius of World War II
By Frank JohnsonWhile the Battle of Britain raged and a German invasion was feared in the sunny, tense summer of 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill took time to create an organization that would exemplify his offensive spirit, his love of gadgets and innovations, and his use of cronies. Read more
