Yamamoto Isoroku is the most well-known of Japan's military leaders and his name will be forever linked to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Because the attack was such an apparent success, he has gone down as one of the most brilliant naval figures in history. The truth is rather dif…
"Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. He planned and executed the daring pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor that damaged the US Pacific Fleet and ushered in the Pacific War, and commanded the Japanese Combined Fleet until his death …
Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike them, however, he always operated outside the accepted etiquette an…
According to Winston Churchill, Robert E. Lee was "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived." In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army, but Lee declined because his loyalty ultimately lay with his home state of Virginia, wh…
