Military History

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colon...

Based on an exhaustive search of various sources, this book provides a comprehensive roster of all known Confederate soldiers, sailors and marines ...

Five men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and two editors at odds with each other....

In November 2005, Sunni insurgents attacked a U.S. Marine squad en route to Haditha with an improvised explosive device (IED). One Marine died a...

During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours...

Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the western frontier and during th...

Since the introduction of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, in which the United States vowed to prevent further European interference in the Western ...

Formed in 1916, the U.S. Army 31st Infantry Regiment--known as the Polar Bears--has fought in virtually every war in modern American history. Th...

On August 2, 1934, Hitler required all members of Germany's re-emerging military to take an oath of allegiance to his regime. As the war progressed...

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers propelling the United States into the Euro...

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's...

During World War II Nathalie Lily Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy...

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to he...

Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gaz...

James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

John Harrison Surratt, Jr., was a courier for the Confederate Secret Service and the only one of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the Lincoln...

Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science f...

In its list of the Top 10 Badass Marines, Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton never asked anyone to do anything he wasn'...

The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and faction...

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. ...