The Georgian started its life as a merchant steamer, but Confederate agents in Canada […]
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Daily Quiz for January 12, 2012
He was known as the Poison King and fought three wars against Rome.
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Book Review: The End, by Ian Kershaw
In his new history The End, Ian Kershaw looks at the reasons behind Germany’s stubborn resistance in 1944-45 when it was clear it had already lost the war.
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Book Review: Gallipoli, by Peter Hart
Peter Hart, oral historian at London’s Imperial War Museum, reveals a trove of research on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.
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Book Review: Inferno, by Max Hastings
With Inferno, historian Max Hastings relates a broad, well-researched and gripping (if downbeat) account of World War II.
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Game Review: Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy, by Battlefront
Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy unfolds around the June 1944 landings in northern France, offering both real-time and turn-based game play.
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DVD Review: The War of 1812, by PBS
The War of 1812, by PBS, offers a basic primer of the causes, battles, outcome and principal players of this oft-overlooked war.
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Daily Quiz for January 11, 2012
At the beginning of World War I, these two German cruisers fled pursuit by going to Istanbul, where they became part of the Ottoman Navy.
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Daily Quiz for January 10, 2012
This project killed nearly half of all workers employed on it.
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Daily Quiz for January 9, 2012
After witnessing this natural phenomenon, the Athenians made the calamitous decision not to end the siege of Syracuse.