The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I Review
“[Leeke’s] smooth-flowing narrative touches on various aspects of the World War I era that probably are not generally known either to baseball fans or to casual readers of history.”
Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 Review
“Linn presents a timely and masterful study focused on the challenges the Army faced in the decade following each major conflict from the War of 1812 to Vietnam.”
Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II Review
“Alex Kershaw’s Pattons’s Prayer expertly weaves the military leadership and successes of Patton with his deep faith.”
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era Review
“Beth Bailey has provided her readers with an exemplary analysis of the U.S. Army’s attempts to address the racial crisis that challenged its very capacity to effectively fight a major war.”
Jason Russell House & Museum, Arlington, Massachusetts
Visit the Jason Russell House and Museum to learn more about The Battle of Menotomy, in present day Arlington, MA, which saw the most intense fighting of 19 April 1775.
Every Weapon I Had: A Vietnam Vet’s Long Road to the Medal of Honor Review
“Colonel Paris Davis’s account of his life is much more than the story of the Medal of Honor alone.”
The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II Review
“The soldier’s truth, as Chrisinger explains in closing, is that war is hell. Yet, the hell Pyle witnessed was also the salve he needed to exist and to treat his own demons, a drug without which he could not survive, and one that eventually killed him.”
Army Almanac – Volume 30 Number 3
Take a journey through days of yore with this issue’s Army Almanac, featuring thirty-plus important dates in Army history.
On Point 2025 Volume 30 Issue 2
In this issue, On Point begins its commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the U.S. Army, with articles on Revolutionary War Artwork, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, John Stark, the Charleville Musket, and Call to Arms: The New Soldier and the Revolutionary War, a new temporary exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Army.
German Failure on the North Shoulder: The Ardennes, December 1944
By William Dennis Hitler’s goal in the December 1944 German counteroffensive through the Ardennes in southern Belgium and Luxembourg was to break through the American lines and take control of […]