Over an illustrious 20-year career, FBI agent Robert K. Wittman recovered an estimated $300 million worth of stolen artworks and historical relics. Notably, these included many precious Civil War artifacts which preserve for all of us the memory of America’s greatest struggle.
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WWII Review: Amsterdam in WWII
One current image of Amsterdam is as a kind of Dutch Sodom, a tulip- […]
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A Gritty City That Armed America
Decades ago, when I sailed my small sloop from Richmond, California, into San Francisco […]
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Mud and Mayhem on Okinawa
In the grisly battle for Okinawa, 2,662 marines would be killed or wounded taking a tiny hill named Sugar Loaf.
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First Blood for the Army Rangers at Dieppe
The attack on Dieppe was a fiasco. But it was where the U.S. Special […]
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Christmas in Wartime
Amid shortages, rationing, separation, and grief, Americans fought to keep the yuletide spirit alive. […]
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Blood and Butchery in the Crimea
Long months spent in the trenches during the siege of Sevastopol convinced a French […]
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The Champagne Campaign
The meticulously planned invasion of southern France and the unassuming commander who led it were largely overlooked in the wake of the Normandy landings.
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The Year Air Power Came of Age
In 1917 over Flanders fields, a fundamental shift in the airplane’s role signaled its […]
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Frontier Royalty: A French general was right at home leading Texas troops to victory in the Red River Campaign
Unlike the other Confederate officers, Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, had a European aristocratic bearing, something unfamiliar to Texans.