Historical Conflicts
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Guadalcanal was the largest, most complex military operation of its time and spelled the beginning of the end of the Pacific War.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: July 08, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Sir Arthur Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington, battled British bureaucracy even as he faced off against Napoléon on the Iberian Peninsula.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: July 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
In Moro War, James Arnold delivers a lucid account of America's largely successful campaign against a Filipino Muslim insurgency in the wake of the Philippine Insurrection.
Published: July 08, 2011 at 3:10 pm
James Delgado, director of NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program, speaks to the importance of preserving and interpreting our historic military shipwrecks.
Ron Soodalter |
Published: July 08, 2011 at 2:15 pm
The brutal 1778 Cherry Valley Massacre prompted a wide-ranging punitive expedition that broke Iroquois power
Winston Groom |
Published: June 24, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Winston Groom, author of Vicksburg 1863, explores the reasons the North and South found themselves at war.
Carlo D'Este |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:56 pm
This leader never asked his men to do something he wouldn't—and didn't—do himself.
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 …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 10:12 pm
In Nothing Less Than War, Justus Doenecke offers a look at the domestic political wrangling that preceded America's decision to enter World War I.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: May 05, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Military leaders are called on to make tough calls - and then stand by those decisions.
Published: March 31, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Major Marcus Reno certainly didn't merit any medals for his performance at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but does he deserve to be cast as the principal villain in the 7th Cavalry disaster? His subsequent court of inquiry did …
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 31, 2011 at 4:08 pm
No survivors with George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in June 1876? John Koster, author of Custer Survivor, says otherwise.
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, …
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