“Some Copperheads even pushed for New York to itself withdraw from the Union, declare the city neutral and continue to trade with the Confederacy.” IN 1860, New York City was the commercial,…
The Odyssey of the Czechoslovak Legion — Meet the Forgotten Army that Fought Its Way Across Siberia
“While the exploits of this travelling army are legendary in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia to this day, elsewhere, its deeds have become little more than a footnote to the larger…
The Jets of WW2 — The War Ended Before These Experimental Warplanes Could See Action
“During the conflict’s final months, American, German, British and other air forces were already preparing to unleash whole fleets of cutting-edge jet propelled fighters and bombers against their enemies.” HAD THE Second…
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pirates — America’s 200-Year War Against Sea-Going Cutthroats
“U.S. warships have been mixing it up with rogues, freebooters, privateers for more than 200 years. Consider these famous (and not-so-famous) encounters.” ON APRIL 12, 2009, the American destroyer USS Bainbridge made…
Death From Above — Inside Japan’s Secret Balloon Bomber Campaign Against North America
“For months the War Department knew that the continent’s airspace was being invaded regularly by strange automated bomb-dropping balloons – they just weren’t reporting it.” TO THOSE ENJOYING lunch in an idyllic…
The Tornado That Saved America
As the residents of Moore, Oklahoma recover from the deadly mile-wide twister that tore through the small community Monday afternoon, one is reminded of how at least one tornado might have actually…
The Cold War Heats Up — New Documents Reveal the “Able Archer” War Scare of 1983
Two years before the rise to power of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and six years prior the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow were as brittle as ever….
Living History — Lancaster Re-Flies its Most Famous Mission
In honour of the 70th Anniversary of RAF No. 617 Squadron’s Operation Chastise (aka. The Dambuster Raids) vintage aviation photographer Martin Keen of the U.K. forwarded this image of the mighty Avro…