Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught By Michael K. Jones. Foreword […]
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A Daring Rescue Behind the Lines
Operation Halyard weathered fierce British opposition, communist sabotage, and the threat of Nazi discovery […]
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Operation Starvation
A brilliant synergy between air and sea came close to defeating Japan even before […]
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Fight to the Finish on Leyte
MacArthur’s strategic blunders in taking Leyte were matched only by the Japanese army’s miscalculations.
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Lawrence of Morocco
In his memoirs, the anthropologist Carleton Coon wanted to set one thing straight: The […]
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Harsh Winds Shake the Dust from Manzanar’s Past
Back in the early 1950s, when I was a high school student in Oregon, […]
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Conversation with Pete Hamill
Two Legendary Journalists, a Generation Apart, on the Art of War Reporting Pete Hamill […]
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WWII Today- May 2008
Long-Forgotten P-38 Reemerges on Welsh Beach When Lt. Robert F. Elliott pulled his P-38F […]
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The Athenian Century
For the better part of a hundred years, Athens commanded an empire to be reckoned with. But the Parthenon and every other emblem of the polis’s greatness rested on a watery foundation: the navy
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Daily Quiz for April 25, 2018
A deep concern for hurting children caused this children’s rights advocate to found the American Child Health Association.