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
Billy Mitchell’s Aerial Blitzkrieg
A century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
‘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 York Patrol’ Book Review
James Carl Nelson delivers an interesting yet imperfect account of the WWI American hero and the trials that befell him over the years
How One of the Smartest U.S. Presidents Crashed and Burned
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of 'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency
The War Correspondent Who Made Belleau Wood — and the Marine Corps — Immortal
Floyd Gibbons made history when his dispatch got past the wartime censor
Arthur Guy Empey: The Rise and Fall of a Self-Made Hero of WWI
Arthur Guy Empey parlayed his brief service in World War I into a best-selling book and a career in Hollywood. Then he lost everything.
Museum Purchases Artifact that Rewrites British Army’s Racial History
A World War I plaque indicates that Euan Lucie-Smith was the first multiracial officer commissioned in the British Army
Book Review: Pershing’s Lieutenants
Douglas Mastriano recounts the key officers who helped Black Jack Pershing lead the U.S. Army to victory in WWI
Italy’s African Eagle
East African orphan Domenico Mondelli won the Italian Armed Forces Silver Medal for Military Valor in World War I
Captain Truman: A Future President in World War I
How the four-eyed, failed Missouri farmer found his legs as an American officer on the Western Front in 1918
Harlem Hellfighter Honored in Graphic Novel
Once-forgotten African American war hero Army Sgt. Henry Johnson is the latest soldier to be featured in a graphic novel series honoring Medal of Honor recipients.
Monty in WWI: A Future Field Marshal’s Close Call at Meteren in 1914
Future Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery nearly lost his life during the fierce battle for Meteren in 1914
Sergeant York: The German Backlash
The Berlin government ordered a historian to write a report calling York's exploit an American lie.
Book Review: Russia’s Iron General
Jamie Cockfield profiles WWI Russian commander Alexei Brusilov, among his nation's greatest generals
