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Military History Book Reviews
Angus Konstam recounts the history of maritime outlawry as far back as the second millennium BC...
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Military History Book Reviews
The void created by men going off to combat in World War I opened professional doors for women, Patricia Fara explains...
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Military History Book Reviews
As Gordon Corera relates, in 1941 British intelligence began dropping homing pigeons across Nazi-occupied Europe, hoping for a miracle...
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Military History Book Reviews
Roy and Lesley Adkins reveal one of the most strategically important American Revolutionary War campaigns — on the far side of the Atlantic...
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Military History Book Reviews
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it...
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Military History Book Reviews
Kenneth C. Davis traces the course of the Spanish flu pandemic—one of the deadliest plagues in history amid one of the deadliest wars in history...
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Military History, MH 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...
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Military History Book Reviews
Having the best army does not necessarily equate to victory, observes author Kenneth Macksey...
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Military History, MH Interviews
The best-selling authors examine the Continental Army’s 1777–78 transformation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania...
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Military History, MH Tools
With the enhanced Merkava Mk II, Israel properly lays claim to one of the world's most formidable battle tanks...
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MHQ Magazine
The United States Army in Vietnam: MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967. Graham A. Cosmas, Center of Military History, 2006, 524 pages. Available through the Government Printing Office, $53 clothbound, $50...
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MHQ Magazine
In the long history of the U.S. Army, can we point to one man who had a decisive influence on shaping the spirit and ethos of the American officer? The competition for such a role is impressive. If we rely on leadership as a crucial...
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MHQ Magazine
Consigned to reservations, with their way of life threatened, the Cheyennes and Comanches protested the only way they knew how. Revenge obsessed Quanah. Comanche culture ordained that he seek revenge. A close friend with whom he had shared...
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MHQ Magazine
Our lexicographer considers terms arising during World War II, and in the postwar era. A number of linguistic oddities arose during World War II, and perhaps surprisingly, some of them have survived. One of them is gizmo, for a mechanical...
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MHQ Magazine
A lightning raid that captured Prussia’s capital city embarrassed Frederick the Great and made cavalry leader Andreas Hadik a man to ‘watch out for’ On December 25, 1745, the Treaty of Dresden was signed between Prussia’s King...
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MHQ Magazine
The battle between the French and Communists for control of Hanoi in 1946-1947 sparked Vietnam’s decades-long national nightmare. Everything was going to start at 8 P.M. sharp. At least that was what the French expected. Some record that...
