Book Review: The Women Who Flew for Hitler
British historian Clare Mulley profiles the Third Reich’s leading female pilots Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
Book Review: The Polar Bear Expedition
James Carl Nelson recounts the North Russian Intervention, intended to keep WWI supplies sent to Russia from falling into the wrong hands
Book Review: The Greatest of all Leathernecks
Joseph Arthur Simon relates the U.S. Marines’ transformation into an elite force and John Lejeune’s pre-eminent role in it
March 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about an Italian memento from World War II and kamikaze pilots
Book Review: Hitler’s Great Gamble
James Ellman imagines the counterfactual outcome of of Operation Barbarossa had Adolf Hitler been a better diplomat
Book Review: On a Knife’s Edge
Prit Buttar properly sets the WWII Battle of Stalingrad amid the broader context of winter campaigns in the Ukraine
Book Review: Undersea Warriors
Iain Ballantyne relates the exploits of British intelligence and ballistic missile submariners during the Cold War
Book Review: MacArthur’s Air Force
Bill Yenne examines how Douglas MacArthur effectively wielded airpower during from World War II through the Korean War
Shadows of Indochina
During the 1946–54 First Indochina War, French-led guerrillas fought an ultimately losing battle deep within communist territory
January 2020 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about chemlights, the Ukraine, airborne turrets and WWI relics
Book Review: Fire and Fortitude
John McManus restores historical balance by properly citing the Army’s role in first two years of the Pacific War
The Crucible of Antioch: The Pivotal Clash of the First Crusade
Fortunes turned for the opposing Christian and Muslim armies in this pivotal clash of the 1095–99 First Crusade
What We Learned From…The Battle of Mollwitz, 1741
Frederick invaded Silesia, Maria Theresa dispatched a 20,000-man army under Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg to eject him, and the War of the Austrian Succession was on
Book Review: Rampage
James Scott relates the 1945 Battle of Manila and the devastating toll the Japanese exacted on everyday Filipinos
Prince William and the Bloody Battle of the Boyne
Fought on July 1, 1690, just north of Dublin, the Battle of the Boyne was among the most significant battles in the long, religiously charged struggle between England and Ireland.
Book Review: Big Week
James Holland recounts Operation Argument, the February 1944 bombing campaign over Germany that also knocked the Luftwaffe out of World War II
