Poles, Brits and Canadians, along with SS and Luftwaffe jackboots storm the beaches of your PC in the ‘Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy Commonwealth Forces’ expansion that makes an exceptional strategy game even better.

War Stories: World War II Firsthand – D-Day, the Campaign Across France took top honors in the History: Military category of USA Book News International Book Awards 2012. The book also won a Silver Medal in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

As a World War II buff and wargamer, I find the above quote corresponds well to how the Allies and Axis played …

‘Combat Mission: Touch’ distills the essence of a fine wargame system into a highly playable portable format for iPad2

‘War Stories: World War II Firsthand – D-Day, The Campaign Across France’ won an Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver, in the History – World History category.

Author and historian Carlo D’Este recalls the day he heard that President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945.

This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “82d Airborne Division in Sicily, 1943” that was presented in the May 2012 issue of Armchair General® magazine.

The Rubis, a Saphir-class submarine of the Free Free Navy, found itself with a torpedo stuck in one tube, malfunctioning ballast tanks and leaking batteries, in the middle of a German minefield.

OPERATION CATAPULT, Winston Churchill’s plan to deny French naval vessels to the Germans, resulted in 1,300 French deaths at Mers-el-Kebir.

‘The German Aces Speak’ presents interviews with four of the Luftwaffe’s most important commanders of World War II: Walter Krupinski, Adolf Galland, Eduard Newmann, Wolfgang Falck.

‘Baptism of the Zero,’ a ‘Fighting Wings’ series scenario created exclusively for Armchair General, re-creates the clash between Japanese and Chinese pilots in the air over Chunking, China, Sept. 13, 1940.

‘Wings of Glory – War World II’ returns the ‘Wings of War’ system to game tables just when it seemed this popular, easy-to-play miniatures game had flown into the sunset. It has a new publisher but the same creative design team.

The new Military Channel series ‘Edge of War’ takes a different approach, using extensive dramatic re-enactments to enhance the narrative as it explores the reasons behind the decisions to go to war in conflicts from 1939 to the 1980s. General Wesley K. Clark, (Ret.) hosts.

Author, actor and director Dale Dye, Captain, USMC, ret., sends Armchair General an update from his latest trip to Iwo Jima with a group of returning World War II veterans.

You know life is rough when you welcome British food. But Captain Alfred Seebohm, commander of the German Afrika Korps’ 621st Radio Intercept Company, traded for cans of bully beef whenever he could. His focus in life was British military …

‘Axis & Allies Miniatures’ games take to the skies in ‘Air Force: Angel 20.’ Pilot skill, aircraft maneuverability and weaponry, cloud cover, flak barrages and night combat are all taken into account, but the rules maintain simplicity.