Local Boys — Exploring the Remarkable Figures in Just One Great War Battalion
“During its time on the front lines, the battalion saw action in some of the bloodiest battles on the Western Front.” By Mark Carmichael THE BRITISH EMPIRE fielded hundreds of battalions to fight for the…
“Iron Hand” – Meet Götz von Berlichingen, the Middle Ages’ Toughest Knight
“In an astonishing 47-year military career, Götz did battle in a series of bloody civil wars throughout Central Europe and fought campaigns against the French and the Ottomans.” FEW OUTSIDE OF Germany have probably ever heard of Götz…
The Heroes of Graignes – Meet the Normandy Villagers Who Saved the Lives of 100 U.S. Paratroopers
“”The SS carried out ruthless reprisals against the civilians for the crime of ministering to wounded GIs.” By Stephen G. Rabe WHAT HAPPENED between June 6 and June 16, 1944 in Graignes, Normandy, a village…
Desert Mirage — Meet the Illusionists Who Hid an Entire Allied Army from Rommel
“You must conceal 150,000 men with a thousand guns and a thousand tanks, on a plain as flat and as hard as a billiard table, and the Germans must not know anything about it, although…
War and the Age of Nationalism — How 19th-Century Conflicts Gave Rise to the Modern National Identity
“War strengthened a national sense of belonging.” By Niels Eichhorn “IT IS NOT the joy over the defeated enemy, but the joy of overcoming weakness and discord which the past centuries bear sad witness to…
Fabius Maximus Rullianus — Meet Rome’s First Military Superstar
“Today, when we think of victorious Romans, we almost invariably think of later personalities, such as Scipio, Caesar, Aurelian, and Constantine. But there is no denying that Fabius Maximus Rullianus was exceptionally good at war.”…
