The Race to the Rhine: How the U.S. 79th Division Took Down the Nazis
In World War II, the U.S. Army’s 79th Infantry Division slugged its way through one Nazi stronghold after another
A Hep Cat in Patton’s Army
Dave Brubeck’s career as a jazz icon was powerfully shaped by his experiences as a soldier-musician in World War II
The Acclaimed British EM-2 Rifle Was Built by a Polish Immigrant
The weapon he produced included modern features that taken together broke the mold for a standard service rifle
The 9 Most Memorable Surprise Attacks that Caught the Enemy Off Guard
These memorable instances of cunning and ingenuity demonstrate that, in warfare, there’s nothing like catching the enemy off guard
The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion
A poet's tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I
Revolt in the Ranks: The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis E. Goodier Sr.
In 1915 a group of disgruntled airmen in the U.S. Signal Corps declared war on their superiors. The consequences were far reaching
Nightmare on the Western Front
In 1918 E. Allen Pastelnick recounted some of his most harrowing experiences in World War I in a letter to his former history professor
‘Our Prisoners’: A Journalist Reports on Andersonville
The atrocities, the Times said, “would make the blood of a cannibal run cold”
How Afghanistan’s ‘Rugs of War’ Helped Its Citizens Tell the Story of Conflict
Decades of armed conflict in Afghanistan have transformed the iconography of one of the country’s traditional art forms
Revolt of the Ionians
The Greek cities of Asia Minor tried mightily to free themselves from Persian subjugation. But their rebellion ultimately backfired
‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts’: Author Raymond Chandler and the Great War
“Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire,” Raymond Chandler would later write, “nothing is ever the same again.”
The Gun that Started the Great War: The Browning M1910
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, used an M1910 to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand
War is…?
A through-the-ages compendium of definitions by poets, philosophers, historians, heads of state, military leaders, critics, writers, and others
‘The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America’s War Against Russia’ Review
Author Barnes Carr examines Washington's secret attempts to topple Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin's regime
Collateral Casualties: Poetry of the Second World War
"Only Man deserves brute suffering"
