World War II
Patrick Clark |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:55 pm
It's not often that a strategy game successfully manages to break free of the genre conventions. Historically, attempts to introduce action-shooter elements into strategy titles, or vice versa, have resulted in games that are either half-baked on both fronts …
Mark Grimsley |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:54 pm
In the earliest light of August 19, 1942, 6,080 Allied troops, most of them Canadian, attacked the Channel port of Dieppe, France. They had orders to hold the port for two tides—about 12 hours—before withdrawing. The assault began with landings …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 31, 2011 at 10:35 am
Being a historian of World War II puts you in touch with the most interesting people. It is a rare day that my email does not contain a message from someone I've never met before asking me a factual question …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 23, 2011 at 9:55 am
Regular readers of this column will know that I don't really get excited about war movies. I read a lot, research a lot, and write a lot, and there are only so many hours in the day. In a publishing …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 7:04 pm
The Louisiana Maneuvers in 1941 made a rising star of George S. Patton as the U.S. Army got ready to rumble.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: May 06, 2011 at 12:31 pm
In operational terms, America's three great maneuvers of 1941 used an approach would have been familiar to previous generations of U.S. field commanders, especially Union generals in the Civil War.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 28, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Last time out we began a discussion of the importance of studying maneuvers. They can tell a historian a lot about the way an army trains, about its policies and procedures, about what it intends to do once war breaks …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 20, 2011 at 9:57 am
I was recently asked by the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) to speak at their annual Military Affairs Symposium in North Texas. The topic was "Training Marines and the Joint Force: The Value of Simulations and Games." It was …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 08, 2011 at 10:05 am
People committed a lot of crimes in World War II. Some were huge, earth-shattering, and we are still living with the consequences. Atrocity. Murder. Mass murder. Others were…smaller.
Consider, if you will, the "crime" of eavesdropping.
There may indeed have …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: March 31, 2011 at 10:07 am
What killed Operation Citadel? A lot of things.
Alex Kershaw |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:01 am
A new biography uncovers fresh revelations about the life of America's greatest-ever spy chief.
Richard B. Frank |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:01 am
Neptune's Inferno
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
By James D. Hornfischer. 516 pp.
Random House, 2011. $30.
In the cauldron of the 1942 Guadalcanal Campaign, the role of the U.S. Navy's surface sailors is an epic saga of humiliating defeat, …
Patrick Clark |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:00 am
The aviation-themed massively multiplayer game Heroes in the Sky promises to steal your time, whether you have only 10 minutes to dabble or a whole day to immerse yourself in its world.
Based on the "free-to-play" model, Heroes boasts …
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:59 am
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter)
Directed by Martin Koolhoven.
2008; opens in the U.S. March 18, 2011.
103 minutes. Black and white, with subtitles.
January 1945: the heart of what the Dutch call Hongerwinter, when nearly 20,000 starved to death after …
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
Favorite World War II books from the creator of our popular "Weapon's Manual" feature.
Mark Grimsley |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
No number of errors in mobilization could have throttled the increase in U.S. production, but serious blunders were still possible.
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