June 2001
Military Heritage
Sergeant Alvin York: Personal Accounts That Reveal His True Story
By Lt. Col. Taylor V. BeattieThey had spent a cold, wet, miserable evening in October 1918 in a drainage ditch along the Varennes-Fleville road. Read more
Military Heritage
June 2001
Volume 2, No. 6
Cover: A German machine-gun crew takes aim during World War I. Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.
June 2001
Military Heritage
Battle of Belmont: Ulysses S. Grant’s First Battle
By Donald J. Roberts IIWhen the Civil War started in 1861, there were only two officers in the Union Army who had commanded a force in battle larger than a brigade. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage
The Imjin War: The Japanese Invasion of Korea
by Eric NiderostIt was May 1, 1592, mere weeks before the start of the Imjin War. Admiral Yi Sun Shin summoned a conference of high-ranking military officers and civil magistrates to his headquarters at Yosu, a port on the southern coast of Korea. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage
The Gothic Wars Battle of Adrianople
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckIn 376 AD the Goths appeared on the lower Danube frontier of the Roman Empire. They came as a whole tribe, with warriors, women and children. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage
Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster
By Keith MiltonFirst Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound stopped tapping his pencil on the oaken desk and slowly leaned backward in the oversized leather chair. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Editorial
Guadalcanal
The 1942-43 struggle for Guadalcanal Island has, to my mind, an odd place in American memory. Americans are familiar with it, know it as a victory, but do not accord it the same honor as the Battle of Midway, or of Tarawa or Iwo Jima. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Letters
Greek War Machines
Dear Editor:
I really enjoyed Mike Markowitz’s article on the development of war machines of the Ancient Greeks (Weapons, February 2001). Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Soldiers
General Frederick Funston
By Shippen SwiftLooking at a 1917 newspaper photo of Frederick Funston, barely 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing just a biscuit over a hundred pounds, today’s reader would wonder whatever made U.S. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Weapons
HMS Cornwall: a Symbol of British Naval Power
By William R. HawkinsFollowing the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 (and roughly four years prior to the construction of the HMS Cornwall), cruisers became a focus of the interwar naval arms race, no less keenly felt by the British, whose survival depended on the sea-lane. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Intelligence
Allan Pinkerton
By Clark Larsen“Early in the year 1861, I was at my headquarters in the city of Chicago, attending to the manifold duties of my profession. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Militaria
Military Miniatures
By Joseph BlesIn the 1950s a small group of French artists in Paris took toy soldiers and began converting them into what we now know as military miniatures. Read more
June 2001
Military Heritage, Books
Yale University Press’ ‘The Great War and the Twentieth Century’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloTo this day the First World War remains contested territory: people still care passionately about it and hotly dispute its causes, character, and its legacies,” write the editors of The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, and Mary R. Read more
