Over three millennia before Hitler’s “lightning warfare,” chariot-borne Aryan warriors overran the ancient world. […]
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Julius Caesar at War
Charismatic leadership and brilliant tactics gained Caesar an empire and made him ruler of […]
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The Great Siege of Jerusalem
Roman legions crush The Zealots’ Revolt. Religious extremists within a traditional society in the […]
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A Time to Kill
Fearing the apocalypse was near, Thomas of Marle and the knights of the First […]
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Lincoln Changes the Rules of War
In the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln was as “inconsolable as I could […]
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Torpedoes in Paradise
Yes, the Germans and the Japanese did collaborate. No, it didn’t do much good. […]
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Ancient Rivalry, Modern Clash
With the Ottoman Empire in ruins, Greek and Turkish nationalists wage an epic fight […]
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Artemisia at Salamis
When the outnumbered Greek feet outfought Xerxes’s great navy in 480 BC, the Persians’ […]
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Before telegraph, telephone, and radio, how did the ancients exert battlefield command and control?
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Postwar Agony in Greece
After German occupation, civil wars among communists, collaborators, monarchists, rebels, ex-partisans, and death squads all but destroyed Greece