WWII Battles
Book Review: Airborne in 1943
Kevin Wilson relates that year's grueling night campaigns waged by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command over Europe
WWII Battles
Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Mag: Military History Featured
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
Military History Features
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
WWII Figures
Daniel Guiet: A Father’s Secret War
Daniel Guiet relates the clandestine wartime service of his father, OSS and SOE operator Jean-Claude Guiet
WWII Battles
Horsa and Waco Gliders
Britain and the United States developed the Airspeed Horsa and Waco CG-4A gliders, respectively
Korean War
July 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Korean DMZ and the sinking, 37 years apart, of the cruisers Indianapolis and Belgrano
WWII Figures
Book Review: Hermann Ehrhardt
John Koster profiles German monarchist Hermann Ehrhardt as a foil to disastrous Führer Adolf Hitler
WWII Figures
Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
WWII Battles
VIDEO: In Alaska, the 2nd Deadliest Battle of the Pacific
The Battle of Attu in May of 1943 was the only land battle of World War II fought on incorporated U.S. territory. It was the second deadliest battle in the Pacific Theater, after Iwo Jima, due largely to a failed last-ditch banzai charge.
Americas
Book Review: The Pirate World
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC
World War I
Book Review: A Lab of One’s Own
The void created by men going off to combat in World War I opened professional doors for women, Patricia Fara explains
World War II
Book Review: Operation Columba—The Secret Pigeon Service
As Gordon Corera relates, in 1941 British intelligence began dropping homing pigeons across Nazi-occupied Europe, hoping for a miracle
American Independence
Book Review: Gibraltar
Roy and Lesley Adkins reveal one of the most strategically important American Revolutionary War campaigns — on the far side of the Atlantic
American Independence
Book Review: Young Washington
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it
World War I
Book Review: More Deadly Than War
Kenneth C. Davis traces the course of the Spanish flu pandemic—one of the deadliest plagues in history amid one of the deadliest wars in history
