Book Review: Dorwart’s History of the ONI

Jeffrey Dorwart's in-depth history of the Office of Naval Intelligence draws on archival material, memoirs and gripping interviews...

Military History

Book Review: Battle for Skyline Ridge

Vietnam veteran and former agency operative James Parker examines the CIA’s leading role in the fight in northern Laos...

Military History

Book Review: The Imperial Russian Army

Roger Reese examines how the imperial army's failures contributed to Russia's post–World War I collapse into chaos and communism...

Military History

Book Review: Double Crossed

Matthew Sutton follows four U.S. missionaries and religious leaders tapped by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II...

Military History

Book Review: The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson relates the heroic saga of Winston Churchill’s Britain during the 1940–41 Nazi Blitz...

Military History

Book Review: Crucible of Hell

Saul David recalls Operation Iceberg, the grueling and horrific 1945 campaign to capture Okinawa...

Aviation History Magazine

Amazing But True Aviation Stories

These 10 aviation tales prove that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction....

Aviation History Magazine

The Horten Brothers’ Jet Flying Wing

The never-built Horten Ho-229 has been the subject of more speculation and myths than any other World War II airplane...

Military History

Book Review: The Folly and the Glory

Tim Weiner argues that the United States mishandled the collapse of Soviet-style communism, and now we’re reaping the consequences...

Aviation History Magazine

Seven Down in Greenland: An Air Rescue Disaster

A forced landing on Greenland’s ice cap set in motion one of the most extensive—and costly—search-and-rescue operations ever mounted. It was called the Snowball Route—officially the North Atlantic Ferry Route—from Goose Bay,...

Civil War Times

Leave Them Standing

Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences...

HistoryNet

Obsessed with the Occult

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime turned to voodoo science in their drive for supremacy. In March 1940, Hans Bender, Germany’s best-known parapsychologist, wrote to Karl Ernst Krafft, a young Swiss astrologer he had known since his days...

Military History