A group of Parisian scholars and museum workers were among the first to challenge the Nazis with propaganda and covert operations in occupied France.   More »

The Romans refined and improved the gladius in their quest for the optimum weapon for close-quarter combat.   More »

Spaniard Bernardo de Galvez besieged British-held Pensacola in 1781. It fell to Scotsman John Campbell to defend the remote outpost.   More »

Bravery was not enough to overcome uninspired tactics in a bloody clash between Marshal Massena and Viscount Wellington during the Peninsular War.   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 »

One of the earliest multi-role aircraft of World War II, the Bristol Beaufighter was always dependable.   More »

The British defeated a larger Spanish fleet in February 1797 in the battle of Cape St. Vincent. The victory confirmed the Royal Navy’s superiority.   More »

The 1940 exodus from Paris as the German Army approached choked the roads from the city with refugee traffic.   More »

Albert W. Boam, a former B-24 navigator, recalls his training, bombing the Reich, getting shot down, and surviving months in a German POW camp.   More »

Philippe Leclerc was among the best of the allied field commanders of World War II.   More »