Year: 2020
Of Fifes and Drumsticks – Victory at Saratoga and America’s First Thanksgiving Holiday
“The American triumph at Saratoga was considered the turning point of the eight-year War of Independence.” By Sean Kelleher MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER the first Thanksgiving being held by pilgrims at Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts in…
Operation Accolade – How Britain’s Elite Long Range Desert Group Met Disaster in the Aegean
“The Dodecanese operations were just a sideshow, still not widely known in World War Two military history. Yet for those who served and died there, it was no sideshow; the cost was high on all…
Otto Rahn – Meet the Nazi ‘Indiana Jones’ Behind the Third Reich’s Hunt for the Holy Grail
“In the insane world of Nazi pseudo-academia, Rahn became a celebrity, highly sought-after for lectures and speaking engagements.” By Alexander Zakrzewski AMONG THE casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is the long-awaited fifth instalment of the…
The Automedon Incident – How a Captured Freighter Carrying a Trove of Secret Documents Changed the Course of WW2
“The papers helped propel the Japanese Empire to war with the United States and ultimately to its own destruction.” By Stephen Robinson ON NOV. 11, 1940, a lookout on the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis spotted…
The Battle of Bennington – How a Little-Known Frontier Clash Altered the Course of the Revolutionary War
“The Battle of Bennington by any standard had been a minor sideshow, but a sideshow that nevertheless had dramatic strategic consequences.” By Jim Stempel DURING THE afternoon of Aug. 16, 1777, the skies finally cleared…
HMCS Skeena – Meet One of the Toughest Warships of the Battle of the Atlantic
“As experienced and professional a destroyer as any of them on the North Atlantic run.” By James Brun HIS MAJESTY’S Canadian Ship Skeena was a River-class destroyer and one of the first two ships built…
