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Game Review: Panzer Corps Wehrmacht, by Slitherine/Matrix Games

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.

Book Review: Carrying the War to the Enemy, by Michael R. Matheny

HistoryNet Staff | Published: September 09, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Michael Matheny looks at the evolution of U.S. military academy instruction in the operations discipline.

Book Review: Dividing the Spoils, by Robin Waterfield

HistoryNet Staff | Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:41 am
Robin Waterfield chronicles the wars between Alexander's successors for control of his empire.

Book Review: Blood on the Snow, by Graydon J. Tunstall, and Breakthrough, by Richard L. DiNardo

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.

Book Review: 1812, by George C. Daughan

HistoryNet Staff | Published: September 09, 2011 at 10:58 am
George C. Daughan offers an excellent overview of the U.S. Navy's rise during the War of 1812.

Military History - November 2011 - Table of Contents

Published: September 08, 2011 at 5:16 pm
The November 2011 issue of Military History features stories about 10 Great POW Escapes, the 1801-05 First Barbary War against Mediterranean piracy, lost images of Kaiser Wilhelm's military forces, Polish-American Patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Pancho Villa's brush with motion picture fame, and Carthaginian General Hannibal Barca's lost opportunity at the gates of Rome.

Pancho Villa's War (Movie)

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

Exocet Antiship Missile: The Flying Fish That Flummoxes Radar

Jon Guttman | Published: September 08, 2011 at 3:38 pm
The Exocet antiship missile wreaked havoc on British ships during the Falklands War and was central to the USS Stark controversy.

Stahlhelm Model 1916: The Signature German ‘Coal Scuttle’

Jon Guttman | Published: September 08, 2011 at 3:24 pm
The Stahlhelm, iconic helmet of German forces in both world wars, inspired many modern-day helmet designs, including the U.S. Kevlar field helmet.

Interview with 'Wild Bill' Donovan Biographer Douglas Waller

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.

Military History Reader Poll - November 2011

Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:26 pm
The United States was an upstart nation in 1801 when it waged war against the Barbary pirates. With the United States now the foremost world power, should it take the fight to today's Somali pirates?…

Military History - November 2011 - Letters from Readers

Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Readers letters in the November 2011 issue of Military History sound off about George Marshall, the 35th Infantry Division in World War II, the Welsh/English longbow and helicopter assaults in military history.

Letter from Military History - November 2011

Michael W. Robbins | Published: September 08, 2011 at 1:08 pm
As faithful to reality as war films may be, they are fiction and not to be confused with the real-life events that inspired them.

Baltimore Riot of 1861

Michael G. Williams | Published: August 08, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Bullets vs. Bricks in Baltimore: A mob out for blood clashed with troops en route to Washington

The USO in its 70th Year - Elaine Rogers Interview

Gerald D. Swick | Published: July 14, 2011 at 8:32 am
The USO observes its 70th birthday in 2011. Elaine Rogers, president and CEO of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, has been with the organization for half its existence. In an exclusive interview, she talks about how the USO has evolved.

Book Review: Manstein, by Mungo Melvin

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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