From Supreme Allied Commander to president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military and political careers are matched by few in American history.
From Mongol horse archers to heavily armored Polish Hussars, these mounted forces forever altered the history of warfare.
On September 2, 1945, Imperial Japan surrendered unconditionally. Yet a legal state of war persisted, with issues unresolved until the 1951 treaty.
The sword is perhaps the iconic medieval weapon, but the real workhorse of any medieval arsenal was the polearm.
Twelve years before it was toppled in the February Revolution, the Romanov regime barely survived the 1905 Revolution.
Before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended WWII, the US planned Operation Downfall, a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands.
16-year-old Baldwin IV led a charge that shattered Saladin’s army. Here is the tactical miracle of the Battle of Montgisard.
Inside the high-stakes chess match between Saladin and Baldwin IV and the respect that defined a legendary rivalry.
