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Hong Kong: A Lost Battle Found

John D. Lukacs | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
John D. Lukacs uncovers the ruins of war amidst one of the world's most bustling cities

Review: Keep From All Thoughtful Men

Gene Santoro | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
How economists led the U.S. to victory

Review: Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Patrick Clark | Published: November 28, 2011 at 9:50 am
You can't afford mistakes in this challenging new first-person shooter

Nov. 17 - Dec. 10: Connecticut artist exhibits 242 Vietnam war casualty portraits inspired by 1969 Life magazine story

Debra Newbold | Published: November 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie's 242 portraits of U.S. soldiers who died in one week in Vietnam, an artistic undertaking inspired by the June 27, 1969, Life magazine cover and article, "Faces of …

My War - Andrew W. Thundercloud

Andrew Thundercloud, oral history | Published: November 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm
As a Marine corpsman, Andrew Thundercloud kept a promise he made to himself when it was his turn to go home

Interview - Lt. Gen. Ron Christmas

Vietnam magazine | Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:50 am
Vietnam magazine spoke with Lt. Gen. Christmas at his beloved Marine Corps museum about his life in Vietnam and as a Marine

A New Deconstruction of Prokhorovka

Dennis Showalter | Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:34 am
Demolishing the Myth The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative By Valeriy Zamulin. 672 pp. Helion & Company, 2011. $69.95. For anyone interested in the war between Russia and Germany, the battle of Prokhorovka …

A USS Arizona Crewman Longs to be Home for the Holidays

Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
His last letter home before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Time Travel: Kiel

Andrew Curry | Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:32 am
Enter the Wolf Pack's Baltic lair.

American Samurai

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.

Lord Cherwell: Churchill's Confidence Man

Madhusree Mukerjee | Published: September 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Churchill's friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister's full faith—even when he shouldn't have

Obit - George Cressy: Wrote personal account of Dak To for Newsday

Debra Newbold | Published: September 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm
George Cressy, a Bronze Star recipient at Dak To who went on to write famously about the battle for Newsday in 1996, died on July 16, 2011, in Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 68. He began writing …

Narrative? Real Life?

Robert M. Citino | Published: September 20, 2011 at 8:50 am
OK, all you postmodernists, you intellectuals who think that there is no such thing as reality, that it is all about the narrative, that each participant in a historical event has a separate and equally valuable experience that is as …

Book Review - Hanoi Jane - War, Sex & Fantasies of Betrayal, by Jerry Lembcke

Marc Leepson | Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Jerry Lembcke examines how Jane Fonda came to symbolize treason in the eyes of Vietnam vets.

My War - Dr. James O. Finnegan

James Finnegan, oral history | Published: September 12, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Dr. James Finnegan's service as a surgeon proved to be a powerful reminder that we don't have all the answers

The View from the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and World War II

Robert M. Citino | Published: August 22, 2011 at 9:31 am
We've been discussing the accepted "narrative" of the war, the ways that we Americans have tended to interpret it. Others have their own "histories" of World War II, and they can vary wildly by era, by place, by perspective. To …
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