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The Mons Myth
Evaluation of British Effectiveness Armies fight the way they have trained to fight. For a century, the British army trained for colonial war. The short duration of the Haldane reforms was not adequate...
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THE PERSIAN CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM
In the fateful year 614 the armies of the Sassanian king Khosroes II set up siege towers outside Jerusalem, breached its walls, and invaded the city. With due allowance for the partisan and rhetorical...
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llyushin II-28
Countries of origin: Russia and China Type: Tactical bomber Powerplants: II-28 – Two 26.5kN (5950lb) Klimov VK-1A turbojets. Performance: II-28 – Max speed at 14,765ft 900km/h (485kt), max speed at sea...
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Mexican War III
Battle of Contreras during the Mexican-American War, painting by Carl Nebel. On 19 August 1847, the Americans launched a two-pronged advance on either side of the Pedregal, with the objective of...
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Mexican War II
TO THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA The United States had secured for Texas the border it wanted. It had seized the territories of California and New Mexico (which included the future states of Arizona, Nevada,...
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Mexican War I
Clockwise from top left: Winfield Scott entering Plaza de la Constitución after the Fall of Mexico City, U.S. soldiers engaging the retreating Mexican force during the Battle of Resaca de la Palma,...
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Mexico WWII Era
Mexico organized the great 201st Fighter Squadron when it declared war on the Axis powers on June 11, 1942. The squadron was a select group of exceptional Mexican pilots with Carlos Faustinos amongst...
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Operation Shingle – The Landings II
Color photograph of U.S. Army DUKW amphibious trucks on the beach at Anzio, Italy during Operation Shingle, April 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.) As the first refugees were being evacuated from...
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Operation Shingle – The Landings I
On the evening of Friday 21 January 1944, Berthold Richter, a nineteen-year-old engineer in 29th Panzer Grenadier Division, wrote a letter to his parents. ‘I am looking forward to some leave soon and...
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Polish Submarines
WILK CLASS (1929) Wilk (12 April 1929) Builder: Normand Rys (22 April 1929) Builder: Loire Zbik (14 June 1931) Builder: CNF Displacement: 980 tons (surfaced), 1250 tons (submerged) Dimensions: 257960 x...
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RAF: The Establishment of a Peacetime Service
To understand why the fantasy figure of the airman was created, it is necessary to explore the political establishment of the airforce after the war. To guarantee its place as a permanent military...
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Walther PPK
Modern PPK variants are finished in a traditional deep blue or stainless steel. The Compact Pistol That Shook, Not Stirred Produced: 1930–Present Pocket pistols first appeared in Walther’s product line...
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The Secret Story Of The Ice Airfield
Geoffrey Pyke, better known for his ambitious proposals for a kind of floating mid-Atlantic airbase constructed of ice. His idea was first promoted in 1942 as an ice aircraft carrier, and magazines...
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ISU-152 ‘Zvierboi’
The ISU-152 was a further development of the SU-152 Assault Howitzer, but based on the IS tank’s (Iosef Stalin) lower chassis and running gear instead of the KV tank’s (KV from the prewar defense...
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Operation Uranus – The Soviet Planning
The battle for Stalingrad and the Caucasus raged throughout September and October as both sides continued to pour more men into the region. Meanwhile, using the maxims that had served him so well,...
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Operation Uranus –Begins
The senior Soviet officers got very little sleep during the night of November 18. Shortly after midnight, the Russian artillery started firing smoke shells from the eastern bank of the Don. Soviet...
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A Motley Crew in the American Revolution
Impressment In October 1765 a mob of sailors wearing blackface and masks, and armed with clubs and cutlasses, visited the home of wealthy Charleston merchant Henry Laurens. Eighty strong and warm with...
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Operation Uranus – Don Front
On the Don Front, the going was more difficult. Batov threw his 65th Army at General Alexander Freiherr Edler von Daniels’s 376th Infantry Division, but his infantry made little progress against a...
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Operation Uranus – Closing the Jaws of the Trap
Inadequate numbers of Romanian troops were charged with securing a lengthy front during the decisive fight for Stalingrad. The Red Army took advantage of the thinly spread Romanians when its major...
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Austria-Hungary – Air Service 1916
Aviatik-Berg B.III Pilot – Zug Friedrich Schallinger, Observer – Fah Gustav Wangler. Russian Front, June 1916. The small Austro-Hungarian air arm worked to capacity on the far-flung fronts. On the...
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