The topographical and archaeological detail provides a vivid and convincing background to his account of such episodes as the Siege of Jacob’s Ford and the Battle of Hattin. The portrait of Saladin is ...

Imad al-Din al-Isfahani was Saladin’s adviser, secretary and high-flown panegyrist. Jones draws on his writings extensively in his account of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, when the army of the kingdom ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

Years ago this month was the Battle of Hue City in the War in Vietnam.The battle started just as the Tet Offensive started in ...

Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.

One of the survivors, Harold Schultz, was misidentified in the photo as John Bradley until 2016. Schultz died in 1995, more than two decades before he was officially recognized as being a part of the ...

The Battle of Shiloh was a complex two-day struggle in the early Spring of 1862 on the banks of the Tennessee River near ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

In the United Kingdom, a team of archaeologists found what is believed to be the lost home of Harold Godwinson, […] ...

The victory was celebrated by Christian countries long after as a key counterblow to Ottoman expansion; but, as Marcus Bull ...