Military History
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy unfolds around the June 1944 landings in northern France, offering both real-time and turn-based game play.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:05 pm
The War of 1812, by PBS, offers a basic primer of the causes, battles, outcome and principal players of this oft-overlooked war.
Published: January 06, 2012 at 11:56 pm
The March 2012 issue of Military History features stories about naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, the 1814 Battle of Baltimore, Napoleon Bonaparte, the mythology of the Marines at Belleau Wood, the 1461 Battle of Towton and a portfolio of America's top fighter planes by illustrator Ted Williams.
Published: January 06, 2012 at 11:40 pm
To what extent has the personal charisma of a commander been sufficient in itself to hold the loyalty of his soldiers throughout history?…
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Its Broomhandle grip and 10-round stripper clip made the Mauser C-96 a popular early semiautomatic pistol.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Swiss citizen-soldiers used the multitool to open food tins and service their rifles in the field, but it has since become a coveted catalog bestseller.
Published: January 06, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Charles Stanish, UCLA archaeologist and professor of anthropology, discusses war and formation of the earliest states.
Hugh Howard |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 7:14 pm
The stubborn Americans foiled the 1814 British siege of Fort McHenry—and the flag was still there at dawn
Published: January 06, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Readers letters in the March 2012 issue of Military History sound off about the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, race relations in the U.S. military and military decorations.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: January 06, 2012 at 12:58 pm
In coming issues Military History will profile history's great military leaders, exploring those qualities that made them transcendent leaders.
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 17, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Essentially a variant of the Soviet PPSh-41, the K-50M drew upon Hanoi's experience with captured French weapons, especially the MAT-49 submachine gun
David T. Zabecki |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 3:52 pm
A young cadet's first, and lasting, brush with war's reality
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rodric Braithwaite considers the parallels between the Soviet war in Afghanistan and modern-day conflicts in that long-turbulent region.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Rafe Blaufarb and Claudia Liebeskind revisit the Napoleonic wars through the memoirs and diaries of common soldiers and civilians.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Simon James looks at Roman history from the perspective of the common soldiers, provincial residents and conquered peoples.
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