American History Magazine
Peter Fechter made a run for freedom from East Berlin that cost him his life...
America's Civil War Magazine
At the West Point Foundry, an ordnance genius engineered devastating cannons At the beginning of the 19th century, it was unthinkable for a nation to try to wage war or establish a viable national defense without sufficient resources to...
Military History
In 1933, in a surreal clash of ancient and modern weaponry, Chinese troops sought to defend the Great Wall from the combined forces of the Imperial Japanese Army...
Military History
The 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 U.S. military personnel and was a harbinger of a vicious new era in terrorism...
Civil War Times Magazine
How CSS Stonewall became the Japanese Navy’s First Ironclad Midshipman Alfred Thayer Mahan immediately recognized the ironclad ram he spotted entering Yokohama Bay in April 1868. He had seen it before, back when he was stationed at the...
America's Civil War Magazine
The LeMat was a self-contained arsenal of devastation. With a revolving cylinder that held a daunting nine rounds and a secondary barrel that contained a load of buckshot or a lead ball, the revolver had few peers; however, the traits that...
World War II Magazine
In the summer of 1945, a band of American submarines sailed for Japan on a mission bent on payback....
America's Civil War Magazine
A bold rebel cavalry raid falls short at a mountain crossroads. On August 1, 1864, war arrived with a vengeance in the western Maryland town of Cumberland. Days earlier, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early had ordered nearby communities...