September 2013
Military Heritage
Thirst for Treasure: Privateer Navies of the New World
By Steven. M. JohnsonThe English soldiers stepped out of their pinnaces into the foaming surf on the island of Hispaniola. Read more
Military Heritage
September 2013
Volume 15, No. 2
COVER: A German officer and his MP 40 are ready for close combat.
Photo courtesy of ullstein bild/The Granger Collection, New York
September 2013
Military Heritage
Armored Strike at Nomonhan
By Phil ZimmerGeneral Georgi Zhukov had arrived at the Mongolia-Manchuria border in the early morning hours of June 5, 1939, after a grueling three-day trip from Moscow. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage
Mowed Down by the Fifties
By William E. WelshAs Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his I Corps commander, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, rode together on horseback along the dust-choked Quaker Road from Glendale to Malvern Hill on the morning of July 1, 1862, they stopped to confer with Maj. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage
Napoleon’s Stunning Debut: The Italian Campaign
By Dana LombardyBarthélemy Schérer, commander of the French Army, gazed at the new military orders from Paris in disbelief. The grandoise strategy, detailing an advance on three fronts with the armies uniting in Tyrol for a concentrated thrust at Vienna, were far beyond the capabilities of the starving southern army he commanded along the French Riveria against the combined forces of Austria and Sardinia. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage
The Battle of Chalons: Attila’s Stinging Defeat
By John WalkerIn AD 451, Attila the Hun, by then known to terrified Western Christians as the “scourge of God,” crossed the Rhine River in command of a multi-ethnic army. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Editorial
The Song of the Nibelungs
When the Huns swept through the plains of northern Europe in spring 451 on their way to what would become one of the decisive battles of Late Antiquity, the Frankish peoples could do little to resist the swarming bands of horsemen who showed no mercy to anyone in their path. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Weapons
The MG-42 Light Machine Gun
By Arnold BlumbergWhether fighting in the mountains of the Italian peninsula, assaulting Nazi defensive positions along the vast Russo-German Eastern Front, or clashing with German Army opponents from Normandy to the Elbe River, from 1942 to 1945, Allied soldiers in World War II faced a determined enemy armed with the most effective machine gun produced during that struggle: the Maschinengewehr 42, or the MG 42 for short. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Intelligence
Dudley Clarke’s Commandos
By Jon DiamondAfter the British Expeditionary Force’s (BEF) debacle at Dunkirk in northern France in May 1940, the new prime minister, Winston Churchill, needed a novel type of fighting force to strike back at Nazi Europe. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Victoria Cross Recipient Private Henry Tandey
By Robert Barr SmithPrivate Henry Tandey had a clear shot at the German soldier. He was so close that he could look his enemy in the eyes. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Militaria
Istanbul Naval Museum and Istanbul Military Museum
By Peter SuciuModern-day Turkey is truly a land of east meets west, and within the cosmopolitan city are two of the country’s finest military museums, the Istanbul Naval Museum (Istanbul Deniz Müzesi), which was established in 1897 and includes notable artifacts pertaining to the Ottoman Navy, and the Istanbul Military Museum (Askerî Müze), which is dedicated to more than a thousand years of Turkish military history. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Books
Fallujah Awakens
The Iraq War is now considered a closed chapter in U.S. history but the true lessons are only now beginning to be drawn. Read more
September 2013
Military Heritage, Games
You’ll have to invest some time to reap all the benefits that Wargame: Airland Battle has to offer.
By Joseph LusterDeveloper Eugen Systems recently followed up 2012’s real-time strategy game Wargame: European Escalation with a fresh sequel, Wargame: AirLand Battle, adding a handful of new features that should serve to hook in newcomers and players of the first game alike. Read more
