Venice’s maritime power arose from a shipyard that with mass-production techniques, superb organization and […]
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The Best Medicine
Death came slowly to soldiers wounded on the battlefields of antiquity. The muscle-powered weapons […]
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The Prime Minister and the Professor: Confidence Man
Churchill’s friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister’s full faith— even when he […]
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Marathon Men
The conventional wisdom is that the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon were amateur […]
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Arms and Men: Pump Up the Volume
From trumpets at Jericho to Eminem at Fallujah, music and sound have been valuable […]
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The Fireball at Zonchio
A ferocious battle with the Turks marked the end of Venice’s sea power. On […]
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The Greatest Ancient Leader
When Theodore Ayrault Dodge, the American Civil War historian known for his love of […]
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Churchill’s Improbable Army
In 1914 Winston Churchill created the Royal Naval Division, whose men would fight as infantry in some of the fiercest battles of World War I
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The Balkanized War
In World War II Yugoslavia the Axis invasion unleashed age-old hatreds and sparked brutal […]
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This Small Flotilla Went Undercover to Battle Nazis in the Grecian Islands
During WWII, the Levant Schooner Flotilla, a tiny special forces unit, waged an obscure but merciless campaign across the eastern Mediterranean.