Tactical Errors. Exhausted Doughboys. Here’s Why the Meuse-Argonne Offensive Was So Deadly

Thanks to a tenacious fight put up by the untrained Americans, Montfaucon did fall on the 27th, albeit at a terrible cost.

The White Rose Revisited: How These Brave Young Germans Used Culture To Fight Hitler

By invoking German culture in their leaflets, the White Rose resistance group posed a truly serious threat to the Nazi regime

The Other 9/11: The Battle of Brandywine, 1777

Fresh from their major victory in New York City, the British looked to crush the fledgling nation in 1777 with a two-pronged offensive

This Indigenous Hero Won the Military Cross For Valor. His Son Would Star In The Lone Ranger

Alexander Smith's valor in World War I earned him the Military Cross. His son later became famous as Tonto to Clayton Moore’s Lone Ranger

This German Aristocrat Beat a 12-Year Prison Sentence As A Nazi War Criminal

Alexander von Falkenhausen led Turks against the British, Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese, and conspired in Adolf Hitler’s assassination

Yank Magazine Created A Unique Record of American Soldiers’ Roles in World War II

From June 1942 through 1945 frontline American soldiers filed stories and photographed World War II and its aftermath for a select readership—themselves

Japan’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Tsushima Strait

In 1905 a Japanese admiral who fancied himself the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson waged a battle for the ages against a Russian fleet at Tsushima Strait

‘Richard III’ Book Review

MIchael Hicks presents a revealing biography of Richard III, last Yorkist king of England, amid the Wars of the Roses

‘The Katyn Massacre, 1940’ Book Review

Thomas Urban relates the April/May 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers by soldiers of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union during World War II

See Images of Switzerland’s Military From 1386 To Modern Times

Due in part to its readiness to fight, Switzerland has spent centuries in relative peace

Kars Fortress Stands As a Monument to a Turbulent Past

For centuries Armenian residents of the Transcaucasian stronghold of Kars watched invaders come and go—until its final betrayal

‘Red Star Versus Rising Sun’ Book Review

Adrien Fontanellaz argues that the 1931–38 invasion of Manchuria and conflict between Japan and Russia marked the true beginning of World War II

Cowpens National Battlefield: Then and Now

Managed by the National Park Service, Cowpens National Battlefield features battle relics and relates the story of an unlikely American victory

The Long and Varied Life of the Japanese Battleship Mikasa

Laid down by Vickers in England in 1899, Mikasa was the last of six modern battleships ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy

‘Churchill, Master and Commander’ Book Review

Anthony Tucker-Jones traces Winston Churchill's rise from young military officer to victorious British prime minister at the close of World War II

This Flight Leader Received the Only Medal of Honor Awarded for the Battle of Midway

Capt. Richard Eugene Fleming's heroism earned him the only Medal of Honor awarded to a participant in the Battle of Midway