The Yucatan Republic — How a Mayan Independence Movement Became a Sideshow of the Mexican-American War
“In the fall of 1847, after the U.S. Army occupied Mexico City, the president of the Campeche government, Santiago Méndez, sent his son-in-law Justo Sierra O’Reilly to Washington D.C. to ask for military support, official…
The Defence of Van – Inside the Stubborn Armenian Resistance That Presaged One of the First World War’s Bloodiest Chapters
“In a foreshadowing of the great urban battles of the Second World War, the Ottomans found fighting street-to-street, house-to-house, and often hand-to-hand in a dense urban environment frustratingly difficult.” By Alexander Zakrzewski Over a hundred…
Operation Foxley – Inside the Abortive Allied Plot to Assassinate the Führer
“The best plan SOE could come up with involved using a sniper to shoot Hitler on his regular morning stroll.” By Eric Lee IT HAS NOW been nearly a quarter century since the British government…
Devil’s Bargain – Inside the Soviet Union’s Pre-WW2 Cooperation with Germany
“Putin’s myths hide some awful truths: Without the long-standing collaboration between Berlin and Moscow in the days and even years leading up to the invasion of Poland, history would have undoubtedly been very different.” By…
The Tragic End of HMCS Margaree – How A Freak Atlantic Convoy Accident Cost the Lives of 142 Allied Sailors
“Most of the crew were asleep in their mess decks in the forward part of the ship, which drifted clear of the after part, capsized and sank in under a minute’s time. Every man in…
The Dartmoor Massacre — Why an 1815 Slaughter of American POWs in a British Prison Was All But Forgotten
“The prisoners were convinced that the events of April 6, would live forever in infamy. One told his diary that night that their ordeal would be remembered with the same reverence and fury as the…
