American Independence
May 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about Washington crossing the Delaware, World War I relics, the World War II battle in the Aleutians and Braddock's Defeat
Military History
Book Review: Why the Germans Lose at War
Having the best army does not necessarily equate to victory, observes author Kenneth Macksey
American Independence
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: Forging Washington’s Army
The best-selling authors examine the Continental Army’s 1777–78 transformation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Korean War Figures
Merkava Mk II
With the enhanced Merkava Mk II, Israel properly lays claim to one of the world's most formidable battle tanks
Korean War
The Korean War That Almost Was
In the late 1960s North Korean incursions along the DMZ threatened to reignite the long dormant Korean War
Military History
Graves of Truk
In February 1944 the U.S. Navy turned Japan’s ‘Gibraltar of the Pacific’ into a maritime morgue
Military History
Mad Mike and His Wild Geese
In 1964–65 soldier for hire Mike Hoare and a handful of mercenaries defeated a horde of drug-addled communist Simba rebels—and Che Guevara—to reclaim the Congo
Military History
Ship of Ghosts
In 1943, driven by a brutal code and blind loyalty to the emperor, the crew of an ill-fated Japanese destroyer committed a horrific massacre
Korean War Figures
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier
Asia
Aleutian Battleground
When Allied troops moved to retake the Alaskan island of Attu in 1943, the place itself proved tougher than the Japanese
1800s
Hallowed Ground | Horseshoe Bend, Alabama
Conflict in the Southern theater of the War of 1812 centered on growing unrest between white settlers and increasingly dispossessed Indians
WWII Battles
WWII Travel: Golitsyno, Russia
Golitsyno, Russia, will never forget the winter of December 1941. Author Bill Yenne explores the little-known battle site in the East.
