The story of the Nazi spy Cicero played out on the stage of World War II like a tragic opera.   More »

U.S. Navy air power shattered Japanese carrier based strength in a one-sided battle during the invasions of Saipan, Guam, and Titian.   More »

That Winston Churchill tried to entice Turkey into the war is common knowledge. His secret motivation for doing so is much less well known.   More »

By John J. Domagalski
General Alexander Patch had been thinking about moving some troops to the southwestern part of Guadalcanal since taking command of all American ground forces on the embattled island on December 9, 1942. Little more than a month later his soldiers were cautiously pushing the remaining Japanese troops   More »

By Duane Schultz

First Lieutenant Gilbert B. Hadley—he liked to be called “Gib”—wasburied back home in Kansas in 1997, some 54 years after he was killed in action on August 1, 1943. “He looked like Clark Gable,” a Kansas City newspaper wrote about Gib when he was young. He “could talk   More »

Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

The United States 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine divisions faced their sternest trials by fire in the month long battle to take the island of Iwo Jima.   More »

Czar Nicholas I’s warships destroyed a squadron of unsuspecting Ottoman ships at Sinop in the Black Seat at the outset of the Crimean War.   More »

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

The armies of Asia relied on a menacing curved sword for close-quarter combat that went by many different names.   More »