The Red Army’s Bloody Clash at Izyum

•January 28, 2019 • 1 Comment

The Red Army had saved Moscow, but a subsequent offensive near Kharkov and Izyum ended in disaster in the spring of 1942. More »

Joseph Stalin’s Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov: A Soviet Survivor

•December 12, 2018 • Be the First to Comment

Joseph Stalin’s crony, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, became the disgraced First Marshal of the Soviet Union, but always survived. More »

•November 9, 2018 • Be the First to Comment

Marshal Semyon M. Budenny was the hero of the Red Cavalry in the Russian Civil and Great Patriotic Wars. More »

•November 1, 2018 • 1 Comment

Joseph Stalin purged his officer corps of thousands of talented leaders before the start of World War II. It almost cost Russia the war. More »

Below, the fox terrier ‘Salvo’ prepares for a drop over England. Military dogs played a key role in morale and companionship throughout the war.

Thanks to technological advances and local help, a Wehrmacht Pioneer was finally located and laid to rest years after Operation Barbarossa.

Emperor Julian ‘The Apostate’ sought to emulate Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, but Shapur II’s Savaran cavalry proved his undoing.

Mark Twain was not the only famous American writer to avoid fighting—and possibly dying—in the American Civil War.