Hellcat vs. Focke-Wulf — How Did the U.S. Navy Warplane Stack Up Against Germany’s FW-190?
“The U.S. Navy, which in addition to fighting the Pacific War took part in Allied operations in the Mediterranean and North Sea, needed its aviators to be ready for Focke-Wulfs.” By Marc Liebman THE FOCKE-WULF…
Napoleon’s Hundred Days — Bonaparte and His Army Once Commanded Europe; In the Lead-up to Waterloo, Neither Were Ready for War
“Horses, artillery, and muskets were all in desperately short supply. Hours of his frenetic, almost manic energies were poured into correcting this with pitifully little success.” In April of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was finished. A…
CIA at War — Inside the Agency’s Operations from Cold War Hotspots to 21st Century Battlefields
“Covert action is bad for the reputations of both the CIA and the United States. But in an age of undeclared wars, it’s not hard to understand why an intelligence agency became repeatedly embroiled in…
‘Hands and Arms of Iron’ – The Life of Solider During the Wars of the Roses
“The medieval soldier’s experience in the Wars of the Roses is unique and not what we are led to believe in history books.” By Andrew Boardman THE SCARCITY OF reliable contemporary military evidence for the…
Nordic Buffalos — How An Obsolete U.S. Navy Fighter Found a New Lease on Life in Finland’s War with the Soviets
“Despite their superiority in numbers and their losses, the Soviet’s never gained air superiority. That belonged to the Finns.” By Marc Liebman BY THE END of the Russo-Finnish War in March 1940, military planners in…
Inside a Civil War Field Hospital — How Treating the Wounded in America’s Bloodiest Conflict Changed Medicine Forever
“Many more lives were saved than was possible in earlier wars, and many lives were saved later because of knowledge gained during the Civil War.” By Carole Adrienne THE U.S. CIVIL War marked the beginning…
