Anatomy of a Battle – App Maker Offers MHN Readers Interactive Map of Antietam Clash

LAST MONTH, MilitaryHistoryNow.com reported the release of The West Point History of the Civil War. The comprehensive volume, which was compiled by faculty historians at the prestigious United States Military Academy, is available in hard cover and also…

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InfoGraphic – 100 Years of Air Combat

ON AUG. 25, 1914, A RUSSIAN PILOT by the name of Pyotr Nesterov rammed his unarmed Moraine Saulnier Type G aircraft into an Austrian Albatross B. Most likely, Nesterov was trying to damage the enemy plane with his own…

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‘This Changes Everything’ – Infographic Charts 100 Years of Unrest That Followed Archduke’s Death

How is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand connected to the current unrest in Iraq? According to this infographic from James Carson, founder and editor of the new website MadeFromHistory.com, the June 28, 1914 shooting…

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D-Day Infographic — Brittany Ferries’ Guide to Historic Normandy

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel and fought their way into France. This week, a veritable army of D-Day veterans and their supporters will descend onto the same stretch of coastline…

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InfoGraphic — The 3,000-Year History of BioChem Warfare

This infographic comes to us from Jasmine Henriques of the career website SecurityDegreeHub.com. In it, she tracks the nearly 3,000-year history of chemical and biological warfare from the ancients’ use of sulphur and weaponized animal…

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InfoGraphic — The First World War Explained… As a Bar Fight

Something to brighten your Monday? Here’s an amusing little item from the Internet in which the whole of World War One is depicted as a massive fist-fight between the tipsy patrons of some watering hole….

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