Military Heritage August 2008
The War of the Roses: A Red Storm Rising
By William E. WelshIndolent, weak-willed, and prone to periodic fits of madness, King Henry VI had let England slide downhill since coming of age in 1437. Read more
Military Heritage August 2008
The Krag Jorgensen Rifle: How it Defined the Future of American Warfare
By Christopher MiskimonDuring the era in which the Krag Jorgensen rifle came into its own, an arms race was in effect among the nations of Europe. Read more
Military Heritage August 2008
The Holland Submarine
By Chuck LyonsBy the 1870s, the agitation for Irish independence, already centuries old, had spread to America. The revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood, known as the Fenians, began organizing thousands of Irish immigrants trained on both sides during the recent Civil War into its own army. Read more
Military Heritage August 2008
Costly British Victory at Ferozeshah
By John BrownA little over five centuries ago, a guru named Nanak founded a new faith among the Hindu communities that farmed the rich agricultural areas of northern India known as the Punjab, the Land of the Five Rivers. Read more
Military Heritage August 2008
General Mikhail Kutuzov and the Battle of the Danube
By Victor KamenirOn April 1, 1811, one-eyed General Mikhail Kutuzov arrived in the Romanian capital of Bucharest to take command of Russia’s Moldavian army. Read more
Military Heritage August 2008
Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe
Roy Morris Jr.Among the thousands of American soldiers slogging through the miserable winter of 1944 in southern Italy after the Allied landing at Anzio were two GIs who existed only on paper, but who became as real to their readers as the mud-covered, K-ration-eating guys sitting next to them in their foxholes. Read more
