Getting There Was Half the Battle – Inside the Incredible Maiden Voyage of the USS Monitor
“By evening of the second day, a full-force gale engulfed the little convoy. Monitor, with just two feet of freeboard, was singularly ill-designed to weather an ocean storm.” By Walter Topp ON MARCH 9, 1862,…
Cameras Go to War – 100 Years of Combat Photography Gear
“We remember the images, but who remembers the cameras that shot them?” By John Wade THINK OF WAR photography and thoughts turn to the images produced by the likes of Matthew Brady, who battled the…
Civil War Submarines – How North and South Rushed to Win History’s First Undersea Arms Race
“The ill-fated Hunley was just one of a number of submarines and semi-submersibles to see service in the war between North and South. Here are some others.” ON THE NIGHT of Feb. 17, 1864, the 40-foot-long,…
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…
