By Pat McTaggart
It was called Nordlicht, or Northern Lights. With Hitler’s drive toward Stalingrad in full swing, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW—German Armed Forces High Command) was also planning to end the almost year-long siege of Leningrad in a two-pronged attack to capture the city.
Failing to take Leningrad in 1941,   More »

By William E. Welsh
In the valley south of the hill known in Czech as Bitna Hora, a vast host assembled by the Austrian Hapsburgs advanced toward the ranks of the Protestant rebels blocking the path to Prague, the capital of Bohemia. A sea of red, green, yellow, and gold banners   More »

Two great generals faced off at Zama in 202 BC during the Second Punic War. At stake was control of the Mediterranean and the border lands.   More »

Janos Hunyadi showed tactical genius in safeguarding Hungary against the Ottoman tide in the 15th century.   More »

The Japanese Army fought desperately along New Guinea’s Driniumor River.   More »

By Pat McTaggart

The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. To most of the young soldiers of the army group it seemed that this   More »

Persian General Mardonius saw an opportunity to crush the Greeks in July 479 BC near Thebes.   More »

The massacre of three Roman legions by Germans in the Tetoburg Forest in AD 9 ensured that the Romans would not control the lands east of the Rhine.   More »

When Louis XIV’s generals achieved success in Flanders in the war of Spanish succession in 1708 it fell on The Duke of Marlborough to even the score.   More »

A pivotal engagement during the bitter Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland had far reaching consequences.   More »