January 2017
Military Heritage
With just an hour of daylight remaining on the smoke-shrouded battlefield near Gaines’ Mill six miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage
The midday sun sat almost directly overhead as Subaltern T. Hepple led his tank out of the French village of Petit Vimy. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage
The Saxon warriors worked tirelessly from dawn to dusk atop the mountain felling trees, cutting them into logs, and adding them to the field fort they were building on a flat spur of the Suntel Mountains in the heart of their homeland. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage
Wind lifted away the fog sheltering the French lines. Atop a low ridge where the French army was deployed, a lone windmill provided a vivid range marker for 58 Prussian cannons on the neighboring hills. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage
On October 28, ad 312, a Roman emperor was drowning. The sight must have amazed his soldiers. All summer Rome had been filled with rumors of the western emperor, Constantine, and the ease with which he and his army had crossed the Alps and, once on Italian soil, strung together a handful of victories in the north. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Editorial
South of the crossroads of Arras in the Pas de Calais region of France, British and German troops are buried alongside each other. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Janos Hunyadi, Hungary’s national hero, was one of the great captains in the war between Europe and the Ottoman Turks. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Intelligence
The most famous of the English-Language radio broadcasters from Nazi Germany was Brooklyn, New York-born William Joyce, known by the disparaging moniker Lord Haw Haw. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Weapons
On the coat of arms of Finland, a crowned lion tramples upon a curved sword with his hind paws while brandishing a straight sword in his right forepaw. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Books
The sun shone brightly overhead as the thin line of U.S. Marines lay in a beet field in France. Read more
January 2017
Military Heritage, Games
One of the most interesting aspects of Battlefield 1’s initial announcement was how oddly novel the entire concept seemed. Read more
