Category Campaigns & Operations
This is one of the most influential memoirs written by a former German Officer. The cover of the copy I own highlights that it “was the book on General Schwarzkopf’s desk during the Gulf War.” I found it to be… Continue Reading →
 Sydir Kovpak was a Ukrainian partisan in World War II who fought the Germans behind the lines in the Ukraine and a two-time winner of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Kovpak began his military service in World War I… Continue Reading →
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female Soviet sniper during World War II. She is credited with 309 confirmed kills and was awarded the Soviet Union’s highest medal for bravery, the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1943. After being… Continue Reading →
Every time I hear the phrase “The Charge of the Light Brigade” I think of The Little Rascals and Alfalfa reciting the poem by Tennyson. There is more to it than that though. The Charge of the Light… Continue Reading →
Just about everyone has heard of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, it is the work of fiction about World War I. It has been made into a movie several times and is supposed to represent the inhumanity… Continue Reading →
Well, I figured it is time for another update. I have made the first round of changes to my rough draft and turned them back in and my thesis made it past my professor and is now in the… Continue Reading →
In light of the beginning of Attacks against Libya and the UN Security Council Resolution authorizing the establishment of a No-Fly Zone over part of Libya I thought it would be useful to have a post about Acts of War… Continue Reading →
Staff Sergeant Stanley Bender, US Army SSG Bender was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in France during World War II. He climbed on top of a knocked out tank to locate the source of machine-gun fire… Continue Reading →
Captain Charles Upham is one of the three men who were awarded the Victoria Cross twice. Both his awards were won during World War II, the first in the Battle for Crete in 1941 and the second at the… Continue Reading →
Double VC holder: Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake is a two-time winner of the Victoria Cross. He is one of only three men who have won the VC twice, and two of the double winners were… Continue Reading →
I had to include Sergeant William Wilson because he is one of the nineteen people who have been twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and because he belonged the regiment that I was assigned to for both of my… Continue Reading →
Book Review: Soldat: Reflections of German Soldier, 1936-1949 by Sigfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw I realized this morning that it has been a while since I posted a book review and I just finished re-reading this book yesterday and thought… Continue Reading →
I decided that it might be interesting to profile some of the people who have been awarded the highest medal for bravery their country gives. I will start with Sgt. Luke O’Connor of the British Army who was the… Continue Reading →
The feudal system’s origins can be traced back to late Roman imperial practices of land tenure. The biggest difference between feudal and late Roman practices is the feudal system contained a military obligation in return for holding land. … Continue Reading →
           Beginning in the thirteenth century the Swedes attempted to continue their expansion to the east into the territory of the Lapp people and the Orthodox Russians of Novgorod. They harnessed the rhetoric of Crusade as they expanded to… Continue Reading →