From Presidential Aide to Battleship Commander — How Captain John McCrea Fought Two Very Different Wars
“McCrea was selected for these vastly different assignments for one reason: He had the right stuff to take on great responsibility.” By Julia C. Tobey FEW NAVAL OFFICERS can boast a career as distinguished as…
The Walking Dead — Veteran Recalls Horror of Bataan Death March (LISTEN)
“Starvation, malaria and dysentery claimed the lives of thousands of POWs; others were shot and bayoneted by their captors.” JULIO BARELA SAID the luckiest members of the U.S. Army’s 200th Coast Artillery were killed outright during…
The Puppet Masters – How Japan’s Military Established a Vassal State in Inner Mongolia
“Japan propped up the region’s fledgling nationalist movement as a means to to further destabilize China, as well as to provide a strategic glacis in the event of a larger war with the Soviet Union.”…
Of Blood and Treasure — Measuring the Financial Cost of the U.S. Civil War (INFOGRAPHIC)
“In order to pay the fighting and the post war reconstruction of the South, Congress was forced to pass historic laws and come up with new taxes.” THE CIVIL WAR was America’s first total war. More citizens…
High Value Targets – The Plans to Assassinate The Top Wartime Leaders
“Hitler, FDR, Churchill, Stalin and Mussolini were all targets of elaborate assassination schemes.” TO SAY THAT the failed July 20, 1944, assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler has been well documented is an understatement. The conspiracy, which was…
The War of Snails – 10 Curious Facts About the German Peasants’ Revolt
“So what was this bloody conflict that claimed the lives of 100,000 German peasants?” By Richard Anderton THOUGH IT LASTED less than two years, the German Peasants’ War has had a lasting influence on history. The…
