Historical Conflicts
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Red Orchestra 2 is the most realistic first-person shooter to hit the market in the past decade.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Compare the strategic objective of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (to compel the United States to sue for peace) with that of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attacks (to provoke a global religious war).…
Published: November 04, 2011 at 3:29 pm
In his new book The Storm of War, Cambridge-educated historian Andrew Roberts takes another look at German competence and Russian sacrifice in World War II.
Karl Marlantes |
Published: October 21, 2011 at 2:17 pm
In an excerpt from What It Is Like to Go to War, author Karl Marlantes lays out his rationale for lying in Vietnam
Arnold Blumberg |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 3:44 pm
The death of popular 7th U.S. Cavalry officer Major Joel Elliott at the 1868 Battle of the Washita—and Lt. Col. George Custer's response to it—spawned disunity within the ill-starred unit
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:29 am
In his book The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, author Jeffrey Ostler looks at the Lakota Sioux struggle to retain and then regain the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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 …
 |
Loading ...