In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe had been moving towards the slaughterhouse for years, and by 1914 a conflict was all but inevitable—that, at least, is the argument often made in hindsight. Yet at the time, as Niall Ferguson, ...

Eighty years ago this week, a small group of American aviators fought in their first battle in World War II. Their mission was unusual: They were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan.