Last Act of Defiance – Why a German Admiral Deliberately Sank His Own Fleet in British Waters
“The commander of the 70 impounded ships had his men destroy the vessels rather than see them awarded to the victors.” ALTHOUGH THE GUNS of the First World War fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918, it was not until the…
Armies of Deliverance – Historian Offers Fresh Take on Why Americans Fought the Civil War
“The premise of the Union war was that white Southerners could be redeemed; the premise of the Confederate war was that Northerners and Southerners could never again be countrymen.” IN 1861, Americans embarked upon the…
“Don’t Give Up the Ship” — Inside Oliver Hazard Perry’s Triumph at the Battle of Lake Erie
“The victory at Lake Erie was a remarkable achievement for the Americans. They built six wooden warships in eight months in a scarcely populated wilderness where, except for wood, nothing they needed was available.” By…
Ultra and Overlord — How Allied Intelligence Spelled the Difference Between Victory and Defeat During the Normandy Campaign
“By the spring of 1944, some 5,600 people worked on deciphering, translating, or interpreting messages intercepted by legions of radio operators located throughout Nazi occupied Europe.” By John Prados THE FIRST-GENERATION histories of D-Day and…
Alternate Endings — Five Leading Causes of Death for Soldiers in Napoleon’s Army
“Only about a 30 per cent of all fatalities occurred in combat.” By Dr. Bernard Wilkin IN OUR UPCOMING book, Fighting the British, my co-author and I calculated that approximately 45 per cent of all…
Dinner With Himmler – An American Paratrooper’s Bizarre Encounter With One of the Third Reich’s Top Officials
“Metcalfe turned and immediately recognized one of the officers was indeed Hitler’s own SS chief, Heinrich Himmler in the flesh.” By Marcus A. Nannini EUGENE METCALFE OF the 82nd Airborne’s 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment was…
