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The Allies’ Armored Workhorse
By Michael D. HullEarly on the gray, chilly afternoon of Tuesday, December 26, 1944, a column of mud-stained Sherman medium tanks, armored cars, and half-tracks of the U.S. Read more
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Polish Army’s Heroic Stand at Falaise
By Alan DavidgePoland does not always get the recognition it deserves for helping to defeat Nazi Germany and end the war in Europe. Read more
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Lucky All The Way!
By Susan ZimmermanDuring World War II, many of England’s Royal Air Force (RAF) Class A airfields were made available to the U.S. Read more
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Charles The Hammer At Tours
By William E. WelshIn the late spring of ad 732, an 80,000-man-strong Muslim army spilled northward through gaps in the western Pyrenees onto the verdant, gently rolling landscape of Gascony. Read more
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Cloak and Dagger Mounties
By John ManciniIn the early morning of Monday, November 9, 1942, the german U-boat U-518 surfaced off the bleak Quebec coast. Read more
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The Florida Annexation
By Peter KrossAlmost a decade after winning the Revolutionary War against Great Britain, the youthful United States was determined to expand its territorial boundaries and become a truly continental nation. Read more
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Nuremburg Prosecutor
By Blaine TaylorOn March 23, 1991, at a reunion of the postwar Nuremberg International Military Tribunal staffers in Washington, I had occasion to meet the former American prosecutor, Brigadier General Telford Taylor. Read more
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Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, the Duke of Alva
By Matthew PeszekThe Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Netherlands, which lasted from 1568 to 1648, developed not only from economic difficulties but also from religious tensions that eventually resulted in several Dutch riots in 1566. Read more
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The Battle of Britain: WWII’s Most Consequential Campaign?
By Matthew J. BenedettiTwo decades after the carnage of the Great War, the world was again plunged into the cauldron of armed conflict. Read more
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Blood In The Soil
By Glenn BarnettIn 1939 the one thing that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin could agree on was the partition of Poland. Read more
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The Great Baltimore Riot of 1812
By Blaine TaylorOne of Baltimore’s less flattering nicknames is “Mob Town,” and there have been several notable riots in the city’s history. Read more
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Third Reich Women at War
By Paul GarsonDuring the 12 years of the highly militarized society of the Third Reich, some 20 million Germans—men and women as well as children—donned a uniform of one kind or another. Read more
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Liberating Slaves in the U.S. Sloop of War Constellation
By Eric NiderostThe U.S. sloop of war Constellation was sailing off the coast of Africa, not far from the Congo River, and both officers and crew were enjoying a night so beautiful it seemed almost like a dream. Read more
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Sole Survivor
By Phil ScearceOn December 1, 1942, a 431st Bomb Squadron Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named Omar Khayyam – The Plastered Bastard took off from a base codenamed Cactus on a photo-reconnaissance mission toward enemy-held Bougainville Island in the Pacific. Read more
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WWII: German Rations and Feeding the Troops of the Third Reich
By G. Paul GarsonIt was Napoleon Bonaparte who purportedly said, “An army travels on its stomach.” Toward the goal of feeding his particular army’s stomach more efficiently, in 1795 the French general came up with an interesting solution to the problem. Read more
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The Creation of the U.S. Sanitary Commission
By Lawrence WeberIn the spring of 1861, a group of influential northern men and women, led by Unitarian minister Henry Whitney Bellows and social reformer Dorothea Dix, met in New York City to discuss the formation of a sanitary commission, modeled after the British Sanitary Commission established during the Crimean War, to provide relief to sick and wounded soldiers in the Union Army. Read more
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Lend-Lease on the High Seas
By Glenn BarnettAt high tide on the night of March 28, 1942, an American-built British destroyer disguised as a German torpedo boat steamed boldly up the estuary of the Loire River in occupied France. Read more
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Caesar’s Grand Siege at Alesia
By Coley CowanAs Julius Caesar’s Roman army began its march on a late summer day in 52 BC in eastern France it discovered Gallic cavalry barring the way of its vanguard. Read more
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America’s trusty M1 Garand rifle was “Woven into the fabric of the nation.”
By David J. LittleAfter the Great War, in which American troops were sent into combat with either the bolt-action M1903 Springfield rifle or the bolt-action British Enfield, planners in the War Department realized that, if the United States were ever drawn in combat again, they would need a far superior weapon. Read more
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Struggle for Stalin’s Skies
By Kelly Bell
On February 3, 1943, Lieutenant Herbert Kuntz of the 100th Bomber Group made the last flight by any German pilot over the Soviet city of Stalingrad. Read more
