Charlie’s ‘Shock and Awe’ – Vietnam Vet Recalls Chaos of Tet Offensive (Listen)
“That night at 3 a.m., the rockets came in. And boy, did they come in.” “CRACK THE SKY. Shake the earth.” That was Hanoi’s message to the NVA infiltrators and Viet Cong insurgents lying in wait…
Jutland 100 – MHN Offers Sneak Preview of New Landmark Exhibit
“The exhibition represents the single largest collection of items from the battle ever assembled.” By Scott Addington, Special to MHN THE FIRST WORLD WAR is all about massive battles: the Somme, Passchendaele, Verdun, Loos,…
Remembering War’s Youngest Victims — New Museum Spotlights Children of Armed Conflict
“The project has gathered artifacts from 2,000 donors and captured more than 70 hours of audio and video from eyewitnesses.” A NEW MUSEUM set to open in Sarajevo seeks to commemorate the smallest victims of armed conflict…
The Winter Fortress — The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb (Excerpt)
“From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long.” By Neal Bascomb AT THE START of World War Two, the Allies and Germans were actively investigating the possibility of building…
Bishop Takes Knight – The Showdown On A 13th Century Battlefield That Changed History
A fighting bishop unhorses and captures a royal bastard in an obscure medieval battle and in one swift blow changes European history for centuries. By Paul Bannister WHEN THE CRUSADER clergyman Philip of Dreux went to war for…
Hitler’s Foreign Legions – Nine Non-German Units That Fought for the Nazis in WW2
“Hundreds of thousands of foreign troops flocked to Nazi Germany to fight in World War Two. Known as Freiwillige or “volunteers,” they came from a surprisingly diverse array of nations.” IT WAS IN the bombed-out ruins…
