Breaking The Deadlock – Machine Gun Tactics of WWI
The machine-gun was possibly the most valuable weapon in defining the fighting of WWI. Its massive firepower devastated infantry formations and virtually eradicated the use…
The Sub-Machine Gun – A New Kind Of Weapon For A New Kind Of War
Born from Trenches WWI created a new sort of fighting. Weapons that could deliver high volumes of fire were essential to defending trenches. If they…
Landmines From The Battle of El Alamein Are Still Claiming Lives Today
The Battle of El Alamein was a critical battle in World War II which heralded the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime. Though…
Caesar’s Greatest Victory: The Battle of Alesia, 52 BC – Reviewed by Stuart McClung
Long before his rendezvous with the Ides of March, 44BC, Julius Caesar was one of the ancient world’s most accomplished military leaders. Between his campaigns…
Perspectives on the Character of Charles XII of Sweden: PART 2
War History Online presents this guest blog by Benjamin Phelps Bain: Charles was more Extraordinary than Great American historian Robert Nisbet Bain writes his biography, Charles…
The Greatest Underdog Victories in Pre-Gunpowder Battles
Ancient and Medieval generals were often smart enough to avoid battle against a much larger force but throughout history there are many cases where much…
The Battle of Pliska – a Byzantine military disaster
Though they clung to the name of the Roman Empire, the Byzantines never achieved the glory of their predecessors. Theirs was an empire in slow…
The picture has become iconic, if you ask any Marine, the one thing they praise about this picture as much as any other is the First Sergeant’s remarkable trigger discipline
Every war has its iconic pictures that will forever resonate in the minds of the public and most certainly of the men who fought it. …
Up The Wooden Hill – The Tale of Two Families – By Jill Schaefer
“Up The Wooden Hill” is a historical memoir by Jill Schaefer about growing up in England and Germany before, during and after World War II,…
The Female Allied Spy Was Condemned To Death By The Germans – In The End They Gave Her The Iron Cross
During WWI, the German government condemned a woman to death for spying on them. Fortunately for her, they commuted her sentence when they realized they…
The Battle of Arsuf – To Win the Day, One Man Must Defy His Own King
Beneath the relentless beating of the midday sun, under a seemingly endless rain of arrows, The Grand Master’s patience had all but run out. Garnier…
Bombing Germany: The Allied Campaign 1940-44
In any time of ‘total war’ human beings, driven by the will to stay alive, will do un-imaginable things of one kind or another. War…