The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if ...

It was the biggest Russian victory during the First World War, and at the same time the most costly in terms of human lives.

A former history teacher analyzes the class basis of the World War I, who we can thank for ending it, and what we can learn from it. On more than one occasion, a student would ask "who were the good ...

This article, "Give Us More Shotguns!," appeared originally in the May 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as ...

And this is not merely an arbitrary selection from our editors; we asked military enthusiasts who read The War Room, our ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Japanese War was the ultimate test between the respective modernisation processes of both Japan and China. The war didn't last for too long, and its aftermath significantly influenced the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The American Civil War foreshadowed the industrial era (and European military observers knew it). It was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the era, and arguably the first ...