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Gettysburg: A Battle that Decided the Fate of a Nation
In summer 1863, two armies were on the march toward a climatic battle near a small town in Pennsylvania that would determine the fate of a great nation. In the epic three day battle, Confederate general Robert E. Lee gambled everything to save the south from total destruction.
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J.D. Salinger Eyewitness to History: Normandy France June 6,1944
From D-Day onward until the end of the war in Europe J.D. Salinger would be on or near the front lines battling the best troops Hitler could put in the field. Few Americans realize that the well known author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a veteran of the Second World War.
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The Lord of War : Hitler's Invasion of Poland September 1939
On September 1,1939, Adolf Hitler unleashed his armored legions upon Poland using this small country as a testing ground for the Blitzkrieg. In less than six weeks Hitler's armies would change the face of armored warfare.
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North Africa Spring 1942: The Rise of the Desert Fox
In February 1942 Adolf Hitler sent one of his best generals to Libya to rescue Italian troops from Britain's desert army. If Hitler hadn't overstretched his forces by attacking the Soviet Union history might have taken a turn in Rommel's favor.
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The Battle of the Bulge : Nazi Germany's Last Blitzkrieg
Hitler's last great gamble in the forests of the Ardennes in December 1944 is the largest and most deadly land battle in American military history.
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Berlin April 1945 : The Devil's Cauldron
After over five years of war and more than 55 million deaths, the most feared empire in modern history met its end in Berlin. At its center was the paranoid, drug-transformed emperor, Adolf Hitler.
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Holocaust in the Sixteenth Century: De Soto's Invasion of North America, 1539-1542
De Soto's expedition in North America was an epic struggle that would end in disaster as his search for the lost city of El Dorado (the city of gold) proved to be a false dream.
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Fallen Star: The Great Shawnee War Chief Tecumseh
Tecumseh's death in 1813 is one of the most significant moments in American history depicted in a frieze in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. His death marked the end of his pan-Indian confederacy.
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The V-2 Ballistic Missile Campaign on London 1944-45: A New Type of Blitzkrieg
The Second World War had been dragging on for five bloody years now London would become the target for a new revolutionary weapon which would set the stage for all future wars.
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The Battle for the Skies Over the Soviet Union, 1941-45
Erich Hartmann would score more victories in the Second World War than any fighter pilot in the history of aerial warfare downing 352 Soviet planes as he prowled the skies over the Eastern Front.
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The Western Allies Fire Bombing of Germany and Japan 1945
The air raids by the American and British Air Forces in the Second World War were the most destructive in human history leaving vast wastelands wherever their massive aerial armadas would strike.
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Total War in Arkansas and the Battle for Prairie Grove
After the Battle for Pea Ridge Union army commander General Curtis would march his army through Arkansas leaving devastation in its wake, as the Confederates attempt to regroup to fight another day.
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Bloody Wilson's Creek Missouri August 10, 1861
The Battle for Wilson's Creek will take the national focus away from the battlefield at Bull Run which took place a month earlier and give the Confederacy another major victory over Union forces.
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Blitzkrieg in Western Europe: The Fall of France and the Third Republic
In the summer of 1940 Hitler would unleash his blitzkrieg on Western Europe it would roll over a vast Allied Army leaving the citizens of Western Europe under Nazi rule for the next five years.
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Okinawa : Costly Battle for the Gateway to Japan's Home Island
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. It was the only time where the commanding generals on both sides would die in the battle. The Japanese army fought to the last man in the caves surrounding Shuri Castle a killing zone like no other in the war.
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Verdun: Slaughter on the French Frontier 1916
Verdun would become one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War. The battle was a macabre portrait of the horrors of trench warfare as the fate of France hung in the balance.
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Death From Above : A History of Strategic Bombing
H.G. Wells predicted early in the Twentieth century that airpower would become both the product and the downfall of Western civilization. In the Second World War the bomber would bring about the greatest catastrophe in history bringing terror and death to millions of civilians, women and children.
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The Futuristic Black Planes of Lockheed's Top Secret Skunk Works
Lockheed Skunk Works creates some of the most revolutionary airplane designs in aviation history. Its planes emerge from black world of the American military most of its newest designs will not be known to the world for decades.
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The Life and Death of Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Grigori Rasputin's story will forever be a part of the Russian landscape his life and death forever changed the course of Russia's history.
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The Collapse of Church Rock Dam: An American Tragedy Its Worst and Least Known Nuclear Accident
Only surpassed by the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the Ukraine and the Fukushima reactor meltdown in Japan the nuclear accident at Church Rock New Mexico remains hidden to the world.
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Nuclear Meltdown On Three Mile Island: March 28,1979
The crisis at Three Mile Island began in the early morning of March 28, 1979, what happened in the next five days would become history and changed the course of nuclear power production in the United States.
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The Fall of Yemen
As world spins out of control at a dizzying pace the chaos spreading across the Middle East is leaving the United States looking confused and tentative unable to stop the violence.
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Twilight War: Iran's Proxy War in the Middle East
The Civil War in Syria has given Iran the opportunity to position its Quds forces along the Golan Heights, forcing Israel's military to confront the threat as rockets rain down upon the Israeli positions.
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The Creation of an Islamic State
According to the Global Terrorism Index religious extremism has become the main driver of terrorism throughout the Middle East the violence associated with these groups has left anarchy in its wake.
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The Union Army of the Southwest Defeats Van Dorn's Rebel Army at Pea Ridge Arkansas March 7, 1862
The Battle of Pea Ridge was a bloody turning point west of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War fought on March 6-8, 1862. The battle prevented the Confederates from occupying the state of Missouri.
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Patton's Secret Strike Toward Hammelburg Germany : March 1945
One of the most ill conceived missions of the Second World War was Patton's raid on the prisoner of war camp at Hammelburg. The POW camp was located deep in German held territory just weeks before the end of the war.
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The Defeat of Africa Korps : North Africa 1943
The Battle for Kasserine Pass was a series of battles fought in Tunisia, February 1943, it was the United States first major battlefield defeat of the Second World War.
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A History of Nuclear Power and its Consequences
Nuclear power plants in America have the possibility of experiencing a Fukushima type meltdown at anytime, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission isn't warning American citizens about the threat.
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Guadalcanal— Turning Point in the Pacific, 1942
Guadalcanal was the beginning of an island-hopping campaign which led Allied troops to the very gates of the Japan it was a turning point in the Pacific War forcing the Japanese military to go on the defensive.
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Light-Horse Harry Lee Hero of the American Revolution
Henry Lee III was a great American Revolutionary War hero and the father of Civil War general Robert E. Lee. He was a great American patriot who served as the ninth governor of Virginia.
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Stuka Pilot Hans Rudel : Germany's Most Decorated Soldier
Hans Rudel was Germany's most highly decorated combat pilot of the Second World War. Known as the "Stuka Pilot" Rudel was shot down 29 times and survived to see the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Stalingrad Summer 1942 and Winter 1943 - The Beginning of the End for Nazi Germany's War Machine
In 1942 Adolf Hitler would launch an all out attack toward the city of Stalingrad, it raged for 199 days becoming the deadliest battle in history.
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Lawrence of Arabia in the First World War
T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Middle East during the First World War will go down as of one of the most successful military operations in history ending with the capture of Damascus Syria October 1, 1918.
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
Asymmetric warfare or terrorism has a long history the most devastating example of an asymmetric attack in modern times are the events that took place in New York on September 11,2001.
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Threats to America's Power Grid in the Twenty-First Century
In the early morning hours of April 16, 2013, the Metcalf transmission station in northern California was attacked by what federal investigators fear was a highly professional terrorist cell almost bringing down the power to silicon valley.