The Eye of the Storm – How Alfred Waud’s Sketches Captured the Carnage of the U.S. Civil War
“Armed with little more than a sketchpad and a set of charcoal pencils, Waud witnessed a string of battles, faithfully committing the destruction he saw to paper.” MUCH HAS BEEN written about pioneering photographers like Mathew…
The Consolidated PBY Catalina – Meet the Flying Boat that Helped the Allies Win WW2
“It would serve in every maritime theatre of the war while performing an array of missions, from reconnaissance and search-and-rescue to sub-hunting and anti-shipping.” By James Brun THE CONSOLIDATED PBY was not one of the…
“We Happy Few” – The Battle of Agincourt and the Birth of an English Legend
“Gentlemen of England shall think themselves accursed they were not here” – Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3 (Originally published Oct 24, 2015) By Anne Curry WHY DOES THE Battle of Agincourt, fought in northern…
Operation Vengeance – Inside the Improbable U.S. Mission to Kill Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto
“While P-38s packed the firepower and had the range necessary to carry out the mission, the task itself bordered on suicidal.” By Jim Stempel AFTER A LONG day of decoding enemy intercepts, two U.S. military…
Castro’s Cold Warriors – Inside the Foreign Campaigns of the Cuban Army
“Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, Castro was only too eager to export revolution to the Third World. Often this support came in the form of combat troops.” AMERICA WAS STILL REELING from its humiliation in Vietnam…
The Not So ‘Phoney War’ – There Was No Shortage of Bloodshed In WW2’s Supposedly Quiet Opening Weeks
“The first six months of World War Two are often remembered as a relatively tranquil phase of the conflict… It was hardly uneventful.” IN BRITAIN, it became known as the “Phoney War” or the “Bore War.”…
