Though the roots went back decades before, maybe you could say it “started” with a special train, guarded from Switzerland to a Swedish ferry… as part...

Any study of the early weeks of WWII in the Pacific is certain to notice the campaign for Wake Island, referred to in those dark days as “the Alamo of...

Wintergewitter: The Doomed Attempt to Relieve Stalingrad, is the first in the Campaign Study Series. It depicts the attack by the German 57th Panzerek...

At the climax of the American Civil War the armies of the Confederacy were pressed back into their heartland as the rebellion tried desperately to sus...

Operation Cartwheel was a miniaturized version of Allied Grand Strategy in the Pacific—a multi-pronged advance aimed to make it difficult for the Japa...

Gestapo. Resistance. Careful plans. Desperate measures. The Germans move Security troops to the scene of the latest sabotage outbreaks. The French shu...

Shortly after Poland was conquered in 1939, Hitler begin urging an immediate attack in the West. The original plans were uninspiring and his generals...

Inside the 2016 ATO Annual Edition (coming out (very) late, in 2018.) In the spring of 1861 the American Railroad Journal predicted that the majority...

Dissatisfied with the Mexican President’s decision to halt all payments on foreign debts until the Mexican economy improved, a coalition of European P...

Miniature armies - carefully painted and labeled with unit names, strengths, and abilities - have been found in Egyptian tombs, suggesting that "warga...

The opportunities following the swift Japanese subjugation of Burma in early January 1942 were not exploited. For their chastened opponents, Allied op...

Before Hitler. Before Napoleon. Another European strong-man invaded Russia… and came to grief. He was Charles XII of Sweden. In later years, they woul...