As the Allies battled Germany during World War I, Colonel Fritz von Lossberg emerged as one of their most formidable—and fearsome—adversaries
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Inventing Military Dog Tags
Shortly after the surrender at Appomattox, Union Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his […]
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7 Days that made Robert E. Lee an Icon
Through May 1862, Robert E. Lee seemed destined to end up a footnote in […]
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The Burning in Shenandoah Valley
Phil Sheridan determined to show the rebels a hot time in the Shenandoah Valley. […]
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Grant’s Obnoxious Order
As with so many prickly issues of the Civil War, the controversy between Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews had its roots in the curse of cotton.
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Hallowed Ground: Pearl Harbor
… a date which will live in infamy At 0645 on Dec. 7, 1941, […]
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The Prophet of Sea Power
In 1890 Alfred Thayer Mahan published a book that transformed naval theory—and unleashed the […]
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A Day of Blizzard and Blood
The crown was at stake when, on a late winter day in 1461, two […]
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The U.S. Marines’ Mythic Fight at Belleau Wood
Piercing the fog of war to separate legend from fact. Many historians consider the […]
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Decisions: Napoléon’s Dash to Jena
No general in history has a greater reputation for decisiveness than Napoléon Bonaparte. As […]