Australian Baron Rudolph Von Ripper’s adventurous life included stints as a soldier in three […]
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Dodging a Bullet: The Indian Rebellion
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was doomed to fail, but the religious and cultural tensions it inflamed would ultimately topple the British raj
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Cold War in Corfu
Was a British Royal Navy flotilla making an ‘innocent passage’ or provoking a paranoid […]
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Last Stand at Ely
After the 1066 Norman conquest an alliance of English rebels held out on the […]
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Wallowing in Courage: 6th U.S. Cavalry
6th U.S. Cavalry Medals of Honor Washita River, Texas September 12, 1874 During the […]
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What We Learned from Coral Sea, 1942
The Japanese had prevailed at the tactical level. Strategically, however, the battle was a pivotal Allied victory.
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Hallowed Ground: Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
“The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More.” That was the bombastic title of […]
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Treachery in Tripoli
When Muslim Mamluk Egypt targeted this crusader state in 1289, the Christian were too […]
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The Poets of Hell
These few Englishmen described the brutal realities of the trenches, not as effete observers […]
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Bankrolling the French
In 1938 a shadowy group of Frenchmen approached treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. about […]