The abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe was a triumph for the British Special Operations Executive.   More »

A new book by Marianne Monson

During the Victorian era, when photography exposures were painfully long, it was common practice to take photographs of children by placing them on the laps of their mothers, who were completely obscured by a veil. The intent, of course, was to keep a squirmy child   More »

Shanghai’s infamous Bridge House Hotel was a place of torture and death for untold numbers of Chinese and Allied prisoners.   More »

The Kempeitai were the military police of the Japanese Imperial Army. Literally translated, the name means “Law Soldier Regiment.” Westerners of 1930s generally called them “gendarmerie”   More »

By Eric Niderost

July 3, 1863, dawned clear and bright, the warm sun promising even greater heat to come. By noon, temperatures were already in the low 90s, a typically hot and humid summer day in southern Pennsylvania. The action on the ground would soon get even hotter. Five days earlier,   More »

Experienced regimental commanders in the woods near Culp’s Hill took one look at their new orders and shook their heads. It was a death sentence.   More »

Relatively few U.S. generals lost their lives in World War II.   More »

The World War II odyssey of Bob Max made a lasting impression and fueled educational and philanthropic pursuits later in life.   More »

Following his campaign in Western Europe, George S. Patton had difficulty adjusting to peacetime and was fatally injured in an automobile accident.   More »

During the “Bulge,” a small force of American soldiers held off a determined German assault during Christmas 1944.   More »