Authors Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz unravel the compelling tale of infamous Chicago criminal, Al Capone, and Eliot Ness, the man who brought him down.
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Revisiting a classic, game reviewer Chris Ketcherside dives into "Axis and Allies" anniversary edition—a board game well known and loved by many.
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
In "Glory in Their Spirit," author Sandra M. Bolzenius uncovers the tensions surrounding the military regarding race and sex during World War II.
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.
Golitsyno, Russia, will never forget the winter of December 1941. Author Bill Yenne explores the little-known battle site in the East.
"Despite the incredible constancy and valor of the men who fought there, maybe none of the great powers...had a clear understanding of what they were doing in Burma," muses columnist Robert M. Citino on the Allied role and their impact during the Burma campaign.
In acts of shocking brutality, Japanese soldiers and marines massacred tens of thousands of civilians as American troops advanced into Manila in early 1945
Author and scholar Stephen G. Fritz reexamines the myth behind the portrayal of Hitler as a bumbling military officer
Battlefield blunders can be as decisive as brilliant tactics. Five of the worst military blunders came at the battles of Gallipoli, Fredericksburg, Dien Bien Phu, Adwa, and Little Bighorn.
Sickmann was one of 52 hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran who endured 444 days of captivity in 1979–81
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