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Holding Hosingen At All Costs
By Alice FlynnOrdered to “hold at all costs,” 300 American soldiers defended the small Luxembourg town of Hosingen during the first three days of the Battle of the Bulge. Read more
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Foxhole [Game Preview]
By Joseph LusterIn most war games, players are either in control of one unit or a very specific assortment of units. Read more
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Rommel vs Monty
By Zita Ballinger FletcherThe famous retreat of the “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel across North Africa following his defeat at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942 was less a retreat than a series of stubborn battles to hold ground. Read more
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Boer General Jacobus De La Rey
By William E. WelshIn the early weeks of the Second Boer War, General Jacobus Hercules De La Rey suggested a way to overhaul the tactics of his fellow Boers in a way that would prove devastating to his British opponents. Read more
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A Death in San Pietro
By Tim BradyAfter sweeping through Sicily in the summer of 1943, Allied forces invaded Italy in September. The American Fifth Army landed at Salerno and moved up the peninsula through Naples that fall. Read more
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Preview: Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2
By Joseph LusterWhat kind of war game player do you consider yourself to be? Do you fall on the side of the more arcade-style shooter entries, or do you long for your games to be as realistic and historically dense as possible? Read more
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Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
By Joseph LusterWhile we’re on the topic of classic games, we thought we’d take a moment in this issue to turn back the clock and put the spotlight on one of our older favorites. Read more
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The Last Days Of General Patton
By Michael D. HullFearless, demanding, and inspirational, General George Smith Patton, JR., was generally recognized as the U.S. Army’s outstanding field commander by the end of World War II. Read more
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Curt Prufer’s German Espionage in the Near East
By Kevin Morrow
Robert Mors was in serious trouble. Immigration officials had stopped him for questioning upon his arrival at the port of Alexandria, Egypt, from Istanbul, and they immediately became suspicious. Read more
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Banzai
By Colonel Dick Camp (USMC, Ret.)
In the summer of 1944, the 5th Amphibious Corps under Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Read more
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Alone at Sea
By Glenn BarnettThe American military presence in China, which stretched back to the 1850s, came to an abrupt end in November 1941. Read more
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Konstantin Rokossovsky: Marshal of Two Historic Enemies
By Blaine TaylorThe year was 1944, and the embattled Soviet Union’s top-level field commanders were meeting in conclave to discuss Operation Bagration, an upcoming offensive against the retreating German Army. Read more
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Broken Arrow Preview
By Joseph LusterIn the world of strategy games, there are those geared more toward casual play and those for long-time tactical players with a keen eye for complexity. Read more
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Expeditions: Rome
By Joseph LusterIt’s time to explore a very different era of history, because THQ Nordic and developer Logic Artists recently unleashed another in-depth historical strategy outing in the form of Expeditions: Rome. Read more
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Tanks continued to play a central role in regional conflicts that sprang up around the globe in the post-Vietnam era.
By Christopher MiskimonThe Six-Day War began on June 5, 1967, with a lightning assault by Israeli armored units and aircraft. Read more
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The End of Nazi Germany
By David H. Lippman“Who are these men? What do they want?” snapped the imperious Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery to the four German officers drawn up in front of his caravan, saluting him under a Union Jack. Read more
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Allied Royals & The War Effort
By Eric NiderostMost people are aware of the contributions of King George VI and his consort Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) to the British war effort. Read more
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A Confederate Private’s Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Cedar Mountain
It is a given that troops who are successful in battle are those that have confidence in themselves and in their commanders, and this was the case with the Confederate soldiers serving under Maj. Read more
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Mulberry Harbors: The Allied Secret Weapon at Normandy
By Blaine TaylorOne of the major aims of the great Allied invasion of German-Occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was the securing of the port of Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. Read more
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Hijacking Hungary: The 1944 Nazi Coup in Budapest
By Mark Simmons“If you want to join the banquet, you’ll have to help first in the kitchen,” Hitler cynically told the leader of Hungary after signing an alliance with him. Read more
