Weapons of Last Resort – The Arms and Equipment of Hitler’s ‘Volkssturm’
“Germany’s depleted armaments industry was still able to crank out a sizeable arsenal of makeshift firepower for the Volkssturm.” BY LATE 1944, the collapse of the Third Reich was only a matter of time. The Western…
The Best of Wellington – Five of the Iron Duke’s Victories That Surpass Waterloo
“While Waterloo remains Wellington’s last and most celebrated battle, it is hardly his most impressive victory.” By Marcus Cribb THE BATTLE OF Waterloo is a true landmark of history. It was there, just a few…
The Ferguson Rifle – The British Weapon That Might Have Changed the Outcome of the American Revolution
“The Ferguson was the remarkable creation of a remarkable man. Today it is remembered as a curiosity.” By John Danielski IT WAS THE rifle that could have won the American Revolution for the British. A…
“These Aren’t Men, They’re Demons!” — The French Foreign Legion’s Desperate Defence of Camarón
“As the Mexicans charged, the legionnaires fired volleys into the onrushing horde.” By Frederick J. Chiaventone IN 1861, MEXICO was in a state of turmoil. Newly elected President Benito Juarez had, in defeating the rebels…
Hitler’s ‘Halt Order’ – How the Infamous 1941 Directive to Save the Floundering Russia Campaign was a Recipe for Disaster
“Hitler’s sweeping, top-down solution—applied uniformly to every point of crisis in every sector of the front—was as nonsensical as it was dangerous.” By David Stahel GERMANY INVADED THE Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and,…
The Sinking of the ‘Faa di Bruno’ — Inside Italy’s Submarine War in the North Atlantic
“The deployment of Italian submarines into the North Atlantic bolstered the German presence there. However, the Kriegsmarine soon discovered that the Italian navy was ‘ill-suited in design, equipment, training, doctrine and temperament to the Atlantic…
