Panther vs. MiG — Inside the Cold War Dogfight That Officially Never Happened
“For decades, the entire incident remained shrouded in mystery.” By Marc Liebman BY NOVEMBER 1952, the air and ground war in Korea had been raging for two years and five months. The People’s Republic of…
April 1945 – A Moment of Triumph and Tumult, Horror and Hope
“Many people died, including world leaders. April, they say, is the cruelest month.” By Craig Shirley IN APRIL OF 1945, life-altering events happened. The old order was dying, and a new America was being built….
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…
