Historical Conflicts
Gene Santoro |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:35 am
In May 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto became a movie set. The SS filmed a combination of real scenes (crammed streets with tattered figures, corpses stretched along the edges) and staged scenes (wealthy Jews dining in sumptuous restaurants, shopping at well-stocked …
Mark Grimsley |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:30 am
On a mid-spring morning in 1943, 160,000 Allied troops storm ashore in Normandy to create the "Second Front" long desired by American strategists and long demanded by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the days that follow, additional Allied …
Duane Schultz |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:29 am
As the men of the Lost Battalion fought for their lives, a gutsy group of Japanese American GIs fought to save them.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: September 13, 2011 at 2:24 pm
The vagaries of war
One man lives, one man dies. There are an endless number of factors that contribute to survival on the battlefield, but no matter how skilled, how intelligent, how brave or how well-equipped, when it comes to …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Panzer Corps Wehrmacht is a paean to the classic hex-based strategy games of old.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:41 am
Robin Waterfield chronicles the wars between Alexander's successors for control of his empire.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:30 am
Authors Graydon Tunstall and Richard DiNardo contribute toward our understanding of the World War I Eastern Front.
Allen Barra |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:24 pm
In 1914 Hollywood director Raoul Walsh
went to Mexico to film a revolution,
courtesy of General Pancho Villa
Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Doug Waller reveals OSS founder "Wild Bill" Donovan, chosen across party lines by Franklin Roosevelt, and a man revered by his agents and reviled by the Pentagon.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: September 06, 2011 at 11:21 am
Last time out we discussed Philip K. Dick's great "alternate history" of World War II, The Man in the High Castle. In this award-winning novel, reality has apparently been turned upside down. President Roosevelt has died by an assassin's …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
Last week I wrote about Frank Capra and his incomparable Why We Fight series of wartime propaganda films. From our own perspective, it's easy to pick apart the details of Capra's vision. Some of the argumentation is simplistic, sure, the …
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: August 05, 2011 at 4:02 pm
In an early Christmas present for Earp enthusiasts, Santa Claus author Jeff Guinn tackles the O.K. Corral.
Andrew Curry |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:59 am
The assassination of a top Nazi in Czechoslovakia sparked swift, brutal Nazi reprisals. Was it worth it?
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:57 am
The Unknown War
WWII and the Epic Battles
of the Russian Front
Hosted by Burt Lancaster, 1978.
16.5 hours. $39.97.
In 1978, the Soviet Union's leaders were miffed by the landmark series The World At War, which they felt …
Tim Rowland |
Published: July 20, 2011 at 10:10 am
Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee camp on the outskirts of Hagerstown, Maryland, in September of 1862. Image courtesy of Weider History Group archive.
War seemed far away to the editors of a Maryland weekly newspaper–until …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Though long overshadowed by Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein is widely considered Germany's greatest operational commander and strategic planner.
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