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The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in May 1940 from Dunkirk by a flotilla of small ships has entered British folklore.... Read More

WE devote a large portion of our present Number to the graphic and interesting illustrations of General Sherman's march through Georgia,... Read More

At about 7:15 on the evening of December 3rd, 1979, Larry Magid sat down to dinner with Frank Wood in the luxurious Beehive Club, a private... Read More

The British photographers were stationed on the front lines of the Somme, ready to capture the â??Big Pushâ? as it unfolded. Starting at... Read More

The Battle of the Somme has become a byword for what is perceived as the futility and senselessness of the fighting on the Western Front... Read More

The Eureka Rebellion has an almost iconic status in dominant constructions of the Australian identity and nation. This year is its hundred... Read More

In Tsarist Russia, people loved guns. Officers, merchants, students, respectable dames, and young ladies all had a favorite handgun,... Read More

Confident after their victory over the surprised French at Ampfing, the Austrians continued on the offensive, only to find the town of Haag... Read More

Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BC, hailing from a local equestrian family in Arpinum. Both Cicero and Pompey, who became associates at... Read More

At a time when the major city-states of Italy were engaged in a fierce political and economic rivalry with one another, Lorenzo de' Medici... Read More

The first Siegfried Line (Siegfriedstellung) was built during the World War One, in 1916-17, as a defense line to protect Germany’s... Read More

In 1795, a young military man by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte was ordered to put down the Parisian mob that was storming the Tuileries... Read More

The Battle of Austerlitz was one of the most decisive military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. Fought nearby the modern day town of Brno... Read More

It takes serious planning and organization to carry out any major operations in a war zone effectively. For the Allied forces, the many... Read More

IT SEEMS from recent events that the French malaise is no longer confined to the present. It applied to contemporary problems of the... Read More

On December 2, 2015, an American married couple of Pakistani descent (one a citizen, the other a legal resident) named Syed Rizwan Farook and... Read More

The fires of industry have long been stoked with sweat and toil. But often, they claim an even higher human price. Today, on the 25th... Read More

The director of the Miller Funeral Home was a man named Paul Groody. He told the grave diggers that the piles of dirt they were moving were... Read More

  To former Enron (ENE ) CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling, there were two kinds of people in the world: those who got it and those who didn't. "It"... Read More

In these pages nearly seven years ago, Timothy Snyder asked the provocative question: Who killed more, Hitler or Stalin? As useful as that... Read More