The much derided and often forgotten Balkan sideshow would begin as yet another dreary trench stalemate–and end as one of the few brilliant campaigns of World War I
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CWT Book Review: Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac by William Swinton No victorious military force […]
Arming the Confederacy
Josiah Gorgas arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, during the early days of April 1861. He […]
The Big Business of Bahamian Blockade Running
Fortunes were made and lost, goodwill mixed with wild speculation in a peculiar atmosphere […]
Joe Hooker’s Chancellorsville
The general stood at the brink of victory in May 1863—and then it all […]
The Day the Earth Blew Open
“Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow,” General Hubert Plumer reportedly told his staff, […]
Make Straight His Path: Mapmaking in the Civil War
Combat commanders may have gotten all the glory, but they might have never had […]
An Infantryman Returned to the Jungle to Look for His Friend’s Remains
Staff Sgt. Jerry Auxier had been missing in action since a bomb explosion in July 1968
Stopped Cold at Stalingrad
How Hitler’s stubborn decision to resupply snowbound troops by air doomed the Sixth Army and ultimately cost Germany the war.
Saving Private Rembrandt
GIs known as the Monuments Men went underground to rescue art masterpieces plundered by […]