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
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
Book Review: Crucible of Hell
Saul David recalls Operation Iceberg, the grueling and horrific 1945 campaign to capture Okinawa
Amazing But True Aviation Stories
These 10 aviation tales prove that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
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
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
Leave Them Standing
Confederate monuments must remain at Gettysburg to help interpret the Civil War’s causes and consequences
Book Review: The Fortress
Alexander Watson relates the 1914–15 siege of Przemysl, a foretaste of ethnic-cleansing campaigns to come
Fort and Fortitude: Pushing the Confederate Army to the Breaking Point
Known in official reports as Redoubt H, it was a key part of the Union’s plan to push the Confederate army to the breaking point.
Antietam’s Cornfield Maelstrom
Antietam’s opening fight turned a field of crops into a scene of slaughter
Aviation History Book Review: Winning Armageddon
Almost as soon as World War II was won, America found itself challenged by its recent ally, the Soviet Union, in a generational rivalry that would come to be known as the Cold War.
Build a Fisher XP-75 Eagle
The 1/72nd-scale Fisher XP-75 Eagle model offered by the Czech company Valom is a short-run multimedia kit. In a way, it’s fitting, as the actual XP-75 was also a “short-run” fighter, with only a handful ever being built.
Book Review: The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp
A look at the work of Joseph Henry Sharp, a founding member of the preeminent Taos Society of Artists
Hawker Hurricane Mark I
The Hawker Hurricane accounted for more than half of the 2,741 aerial victories claimed by RAF Fighter Command during the 1940 Battle of Britain
