From Longbows to Spitfires – Nine Weapons that Made Britain Great
“Part of the country’s edge in its history of conflicts has been superior technology by land, sea, and air.” By Douglas Brown THE UNITED KINGDOM has seen its share of armed conflicts. In fact, few…
Hitler and Pearl Harbor — How News of Japan’s Surprise Attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet Rocked the Third Reich
“The Führer was surprised — he clearly had no foreknowledge of the date and time of the attack — and ecstatic.” By Brendan Simms AFTER A long run of victories which had given him control…
Airships of the Civil War— The Bizarre Story of the Union Army’s Experimental Balloon Corps
“The balloons of the Civil War were a brief but truly forward-looking glimpse of what the future would bring.” By Charles M. Evans IT HAS OFTEN been said that the American Civil War was one…
Shadows of the Past – How a Network of Fugitive Nazis Found New Wars to Fight in the Middle East of the 1950s
“Outwardly, Brunner led a quiet life… In fact, he was a mercenary and arms dealer.” By Danny Orbach IN 1994, an official in the information security department of BND, Germany’s Secret Service, gave an order…
Havocs Over New Guinea — Inside the American 312th Bomber Group’s Air Campaign in the Pacific
“It was there that General Kenney was the first in American history to achieve the now widely accepted principle that the first goal of any military conflict is air superiority.” By John E. Happ MY FATHER never…
The Battle of Fort Washington — Inside One of the Continental Army’s Worst Defeats of the Revolutionary War
“The surrender of the outpost and its defenders was the final humiliation for Washington and his New York campaign.” By Michael G. Stroud THE ENTIRE effort to hold what is now Manhattan Island from the…
