
June 1950, fighting vehicles proving establishment. Churchy Surrey. A squat four-w wheeled machine rolls off a transport truck for its first official trials. It weighs…

May 23rd, 1940. Oberloitant France Stigler banks his messes BF 109 over the French coast near Calala, scanning the sky above the smoke rising from…

It is 22nd June 1943. Off the Dutch coast between the Hag and Denhelder, a German convoy pushes south through gray North Sea waters. There…

May 3rd, 1945. A dirt road in northern Germany. An American checkpoint near the village of Schwarzenbeck. A black Mercedes pulls to a stop. Behind…

Commanders asked for the Smatchet by name for one simple reason. It had nothing to do with stories, fame, or legends from battle. The reason…

The sun was cruel that day, hanging low over the Arizona dust. The woman’s hands were cuffed in front of her, skin raw where the…

At 4:17 in the morning on February 9th, 1944, Private Edwin Mle crouched in a muddy depression beneath a strangler fig on Bugganville’s northern rgeline,…

May 1940, somewhere near Dunkirk, France, British infantry from the Royal West Kent Regiment fix bayonets as German forces close in on their defensive position.…

In 1940, the US Army had fewer than 500 tanks. Its air force was smaller than Portugal’s. But when the sleeping giant awoke, it did…

It is the decisive arm of the modern battlefield, artillery. And in the Second World War, no army on Earth was more obsessed with the…




