German merchant raiders like Wolf plagued Allied shipping during World War I
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Desperate Stand: What The Brickyard Fight Meant At Gettysburg
For more than a century, the fighting that occurred at John Kuhn’s brickyard was often a mere footnote in the history of the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
Insight: Every Sketch Tells a Story
Two talented field artists produced a treasure trove of action-packed sketches.
The Blog Roll: Prime Care
From the beginning the Civil War created a demand for hospitals that neither the North nor the South could meet.
Who’s to Blame for Private Eddie Slovik’s Death?
Private Eddie Slovik, executed for desertion in 1945, has been memorialized in print and film as an unwitting sufferer of a cruel army. A deeper look, though, reveals a different story
The Stonewall Jackson Enigma
In Stendahl’s novel The Charterhouse of Parma, the young hero, Fabrizio, is caught smack-dab […]
Aussies’ Face-to-Face Fight at Binh Ba
Did an NVA battalion lure unsuspecting elements of the Royal Australian Regiment into a […]
Douglas Pike On the Tragedy of Our Times
Tough questions remained even for the man who arguably knew the intricacies of Vietnam […]
The Wreck of the Magdeburg
On the afternoon of August 24, 1914, the German warship Magdeburg steamed out of the East Prussian harbor of Memel toward the most fateful accident in the history of cryptography.
Back to Ia Drang
At Ia Drang in 1965, they fought each other with an intimate, bloody ferocity […]
