While searching for Pancho Villa, Byron Jones became the first U.S. military pilot to […]
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The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days in Hell
Radical Islamic students in Tehran took 52 Americans hostage and kicked off a 14-month crisis that would humiliate a U.S. president and humble a superpower.
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‘Avowed Enemies of the Country’: Knights of the Golden Circle
Well-placed members of the Knights of the Golden Circle plotted to send Federal arms […]
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Tanks that Mattered
For the past century, in single combat and in wars, these landmark tanks have been arbiters of victory and defeat.
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LBJ’s Personal Blowtorch
In the wake of the Communist Tet Offensive, LBJ’s point man on pacification policy, […]
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Funston of the Philippines
In 1901 Brigadier General Frederick Funston masterminded a ‘desperate undertaking’ to quash the guerrilla […]
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The Last Imperial German: Hermann Ehrhardt
Hermann Ehrhardt fought for his country in World War I, fought to save it […]
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Frank Whittle and the Race for the Jet
A 1930 patent filed by a young RAF officer kick-started the Jet Age.
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Drafting Table Aces: Nine Designers of the Some of the Most Significant Aircraft
The red carpet for great aircraft designers has been trod by names that may […]
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‘Nor Prayers for Mercy’
Januarius MacGahan’s dispatches from the 1876 April Uprising in Bulgaria horrified Europe with reports […]