How a Friendly Fire Tragedy in Sicily Transformed Airborne Warfare
During 1943's Operation Husky, fire from ship and shore killed dozens of Americans—and provided the Allies with a costly lesson.
National WWI Museum and Memorial Now Has Great War GIFs for Every Occasion
Feeling happy? Mad? Sad? The museum’s got a GIF for that
This War Correspondent Was the First to Report V-E Day — He Was Then Fired for It
“That’s official. Make the date[line] Reims and get it out.”
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
Torpedo Rider: Luigi Durand de la Penne
The Italian frogman earned his nation’s highest award - an honor bestowed on him by the hand of his enemy
The Vichy Regime’s Bizarre Final Months in a German Castle
From the imposing stronghold of Sigmaringen, a toxic blend of French collaborators ran a government-in-exile.
‘Are we the baddies?’ A Brief History of the Totenkopf Insignia
Once associated with Prussian hussars, the Totenkopf is now a symbol of the evils of the Nazi regime
‘White House Designer and Builder James Hoban’ Celebrates the Son of Eire Who Built America’s Most Famous House
A Kilkenny farmer's son executed America's most revered neoclassical building and rebuilt it after British invasion
The Bodies of More Than 270 German WWI Soldiers Found in French Tunnel
In 1917 two French artillery shells sealed off the tunnel's exits, dooming the men inside
Rogue U-Boat: The Battle of Point Judith, 1945
Hours after being called home in May 1945, the German submarine U-853 tempted fate in combat off Rhode Island
Book Review: Wellington’s Favourite Engineer
In Mark Thompson's re-evaluation John Burgoyne emerges as an important architect of Britain’s victory over Napoléonic France
‘Stumbling Stones’: How a German Artist is Memorializing Holocaust Victims One Brick at a Time
The "stumbling stones" now constitute the world’s largest decentralised memorial
Fearless Radicals Turned the Quakers From Advocates of Slavery to Fervent Abolitionists
It took a century and a half and the tireless work of dissenting Friends to create the first White-dominated antislavery movement
The Etymology of ‘F*ck’ and the War that Popularized it
“If I hear another f*cking G.I. say ‘f*cking’ once more I’ll cut my f*cking throat"
Meet Huie Lamb, One of the First Fighter Pilots to Down a Me 262 Jetfighter
The retired lieutenant colonel recalls his days spent at England's Duxford Air Force Base—and in the sky.
For Covenant and King: James Graham, Marquess of Montrose
Amid shifting political alliances of 17th century Scotland, fighting marquess James Graham morphed from Covenanter champion into defender of the Crown
