From the moment of her appearance on history’s stage, Joan of Arc has been a cultural icon. Artists and politicians…
France was in a dire state at the start of 1429. The English controlled almost all the territory north of…
Crossing a body of water at nighttime is one of the most difficult military maneuvers. Unfortunately for George Washington and…
In the six months between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, Imperial Japan looked unstoppable. It had humiliated the…
By the end of the first week of the war, Russia’s underperformance was clear. Vladimir Putin was less a strategic…
In 1904, war broke out between Russia and Japan after long-simmering tensions. Western feeling was that the Russians would crush…
For over 20 years, Russia’s leader has assumed a carefully-constructed persona: the Vladimir Putin myth. He was Russia’s latter-day Czar,…
It is the first century AD. Han China and the Roman Empire are the two “superpowers” of east and west.…
Because he was such a force of nature, we tend to think that Alexander the Great’s accession to the throne…
It is late 216 BC. The Romans have just suffered a catastrophic defeat at Cannae. 40,000 Romans were packed in…