Home Made Arsenal – Nine Ingenious Weapons of the Polish Underground
“Many of the underground’s own submachine guns, grenades and pistols had been secretly mass-produced for years.” IN AUGUST 1944, nearly 20,000 fighters from Poland’s underground Armia Krajowa (AK) or “Home Army,” launched a series of…
Never Surrender! – As Britain’s War Cabinet Considered Making Peace with Hitler in 1940, Churchill Remained Defiant
“Churchill’s ‘victory at all costs’ was a call for the kind of total war that Britain had suffered through at the Somme and Passchendaele a generation earlier. And look what that had begot: A million…
Dangerous Waters — What Can History Teach Us About America’s Next Naval Confrontation?
“The explosion of the battleship Maine, the sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania and the air attack on the gunboat Panay all generated major crises that threatened U.S. relations with a significant foreign power.” (Originally…
The Death of Mata Hari — Inside the Tragic Story of the First World War’s Most Celebrated Spy
“Just another senseless casualty in a senseless war, one thing is certain though: no soldier ever faced death more bravely than she.” By Robert Heege JUST BEFORE six o’clock on the morning of Oct.15, 1917,…
The Storming of U-94 – How Two Allied Sailors Took on the Crew of a U-boat in the Caribbean
“The incident had all the elements of a great naval tale: a devastating air attack, the ramming of an enemy submarine by an Allied corvette, and a hostile boarding on the Spanish Main.” By James…
Weapons of Mass Production – 10 of History’s Most Widely Produced Fighting Machines
“The Liberator is just one of a number of iconic fighting machines that have been produced in mind-bogglingly vast numbers. Consider these.” WHILE THE BOEING B-17 is the most famous American heavy bomber of the Second World War,…
