Kursk would mark the end of the great German offensives. It would also signal the beginning of the Russian recovery of its land and its dignity. And no one could tell a soldier of the Motherland that revenge is a dish served cold.

A man of contradictions – both in character and action – A.P. Hill, like his mentor, Lee, abhorred slavery. And like Lee, he resigned his federal commission to serve his native state.

Wild Bill Wilder takes a look at the heroic actions of “Combeforce” in North Africa, 1941 – a fast unit with one mission in mind – prevent the Italian Army from escaping!

During 1914-18 an estimated one million soldiers died in the Ypres Salient, a bulge roughly 20km square east and south of the medieval Flanders city of Ypres.

In the closing days of December 1943 both sides were watching each other across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. After two years the war had entered a new phase.

On the morning of April 9, 1940, most Danes rose for breakfast not knowing they were now living in a German protectorate. Since 4 o’clock that morning, 40,000 German troops had been rolling through their land.

The Huaihai Campaign, or the Battle of Xu-Beng, was one of the greatest battles of modern Chinese history, and of the 20th Century.

Wild Bill Wilder takes a look a look back at Operation Desert Storm, and the British involvement in particular.

The Battle of Kasserine Pass, though depicted as a serious debacle for the Americans, can actually be looked at as an American victory, although Pyrrhic in nature.

The day after the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland, we take a look back at the story of Irish nationalism and the struggle for independence.

Generalleutnant Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz served Germany mostly on the East Front – he would eventually become known as simply “Der Panzer Graf (The Tank Count).”

General-Oberst Gotthard Heinrici had built his reputation as a brilliant defensive fighter during the disastrous winter of 1941-42 when the Soviets threw a hundred divisions at his freezing and ill-clad troops.

Koniggratz was the result of years of political maneuvering. By the mid-19th Century Prussia, previously thought of as the weakest of the German powers, was rising like a phoenix.

In October 1805, Right Hon. Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson, led the British Royal Navy to a sweeping victory over Napoleon Bonaparte’s Franco-Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar in Southern Spain.

Sixty-five years ago, Hermann Goering’s Luftwaffe showcased its aerial triumphs in a 1942 commemorative book of 100 stereoscopic photographs, providing a rare insider’s view of the early war years.

In one of the most decisive battles in history, the combined forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Union fought against the army of the Order of Teutonic Knights.