Book Review: With Their Bare Hands
Gene Fax delivers an epic account of the 1918 Battle of Montfaucon—American doughboys' drive on the Meuse-Argonne front
Book Review: Small Boats and Daring Men
Benjamin Armstrong details early naval operations that set the precedent for future clandestine units and maneuvers
Nogales: A Border Town Divided Against Itself
In 1918 residents of the U.S.-Mexican border town of Nogales went to war with each other
Alex Kershaw: The First Wave on D-Day
The author’s latest book centers on the Allied soldiers who first engaged the enemy at Normandy
November 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Aleutian Islands Campaign, naval hero David Farragut and Irish mercenary "Mad Mike" Hoare
Book Review: Patton’s Last Gamble
Duane Shultz relates how in the closing weeks of World War II General George Patton ordered a rescue mission with dubious goals and disastrous results
Book Review: The Ghost Ships of Archangel
William Geroux recounts the disastrous July 1942 Arctic convoy PQ-17, whose men and ships were left to fend for themselves
Book Review: Instrument of War
Dennis Showalter studies the German army in World War I, refuting lingering myths, while clarifying recent insights
Book Review: The Fighters
C.J. Chivers details the lives of six Americans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and the price they paid
Hell on Peleliu, 1944
The grinding 73-day fight for the Pacific island of Peleliu was all for naught, as a neighboring atoll proved of far greater strategic value
September 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about naval lessons from the Falklands War and Japanese internment during World War II
Book Review: The Viking Wars
Max Adams relates the history of the Norse invasion of the British Isles and their eventual assimilation
Vatican Intrigue: Priest Outwits Nazis
How an Irish monsignor used his Vatican office to defy fascist authorities in wartime Rome
Book Review: Rome Resurgent
Peter Heather examines the reign of 6th century Emperor Justinian, who ruled the Western Roman empire for 38 years
Kandahar Kill Zone
In 2006 Canadians assaulting a Taliban stronghold near Kandahar, Afghanistan, came under attack from a multi-fanged enemy
Book Review: Unlikely General
Mary Stockwell profiles Anthony Wayne, the general whose military action against Indians made the state of Ohio possible
