The Last Sailing Warship – Inside the Amazing Voyage of the Kaiser’s Commerce Raider ‘Seeadler’
“Von Luckner preferred to capture his prey rather than kill. In its entire career as a raider, Seeadler’s guns only took a single life.” By Blaine Pardoe THE STORIED AGE OF SAIL was long over…
Night of a Thousand Maydays – Inside a Disastrous Allied Cargo Mission Over the Himalayan ‘Hump’
“The world’s first military airlift was known as ‘the Hump’ for both the 15,000-foot mountains the air route crossed and the extreme burdens the mission placed on the young men of the U.S. Army’s Air…
The Hedgehog — Meet the Allies’ Devastatingly Effective U-Boat Killer
“The Hedgehog had several advantages over the depth charge.” By Mark Lardas THE U.S. NAVY’S Mk. 10 and Mk. 11 ahead-throwing spigot mortar projector was the deadliest submarine killer of World War Two. The proper…
The Confederacy’s Canadian Raiders — How Rebel Agents Waged War On the North from Foreign Soil
“The mission had shown the people of the North that they were not immune from the pain and suffering of the Civil War.” By Julian Sher THEY WERE FEARED because they struck suddenly and swiftly,…
The 33rd Regiment of Foot – Meet the Most Battle-Hardened Redcoats of the Revolutionary War
“From Saratoga to South Carolina, the 33rd was one of the most heavily-engaged units – on either side – throughout the war.” By Robbie MacNiven IN THE EARLY 1770s, the 33rd Regiment of Foot was…
The Fighting Cartoonist – How Bill Mauldin’s ‘Willie & Joe’ Comics Captured the Plight of GIs in WWII
“A baby-faced infantryman from Phoenix, Ariz. was the creative genius behind Willie and Joe, perhaps the best-loved comic strip to come out of World War Two.” PICTURE TWO SOAKING AND EXHAUSTED GIs squatting in a mud-filled…
