Military History

Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.

Letters

PAUL ALLEN’S TEAM FINDS WRECK OF USS LEXINGTON

Tankfest 2018 Rolls Into Tank Museum

HOW TO PRESERVE MARITIME HERITAGE?

RAF BOMBS DID NOT DOWN FAMED BANDLEADER MILLER

WAR RECORD

MUSEUM SHOWCASES SARGENT’S ICONIC WWI PAINTING GASSED

Memorial Honors Gulf War Hero

Creator of a Cold War Icon

Own a Historic M1911 Pistol

Thumbs Down for Terra-Cotta Vandal/Thief

BOARD GAME TEACHES ABOUT BERLIN AIRLIFT

CLARENCE BEAVERS: LAST ‘TRIPLE NICKEL’

WAR ON PARADE • President Donald Trump’s plan to honor troops with a military parade on Veterans’ Day (November 11) isn’t the first time a U.S. president has put the nation’s martial might on display.

Interview David Mearns Shipwreck Hunter

Valor Courage in Kargil

What We Learned From… The Siege of Kut

Hardware Insect-Class Gunboat

MURDER IN VIETNAM • What was it about the war that prompted a horrific rise in ‘fraggings’—the murders of officers and NCOs by their own men?

WAR IN THE ‘GREEN HELL’ • In the lull between world wars, Paraguay and Bolivia battled over a wasteland of desert scrub, deadly reptiles and rumored oil deposits

1932–35 CHACO WAR

THE SECRET LIFE OF ERICH GIMPEL • Landed by U-boat on the coast of Maine in 1944, the senior agent of a two-man Nazi spy team had a thrilling tale to tell—most of it true

JIHAD IN THE AGE OF VICTORIA • During the British monarch’s six-decade reign a wave of fanatical Islamic uprisings threatened to sunder her global empire

TAKING LIBERTIES • U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry were detained without trial after Pearl Harbor

WAITING FOR DEATH • As Chinese citizens and foreigners alike fled Nanking in 1937, correspondent C. Yates McDaniel stayed behind to report on the Japanese wrath

War for the Seas

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Hallowed Ground Megiddo (Armageddon), Israel

War Games

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