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Military History Feature Writer: Christopher Eger

Here we will delve into the world of human armed struggle on the battlefield, in the air, and on the seas. Covering naval history, land warfare, and aerospace conflict, find articles as varied as the Guerilla Campaigns in Missouri during the American Civil War, to biographies of military leaders and despots.

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Feature Writer Articles in Military History

 		The Kaiser's Protos Race Team
Driven by a General Staff Lieutenant on leave from the German Army, the huge Protos racing car was a disputed winner of the Great Race of 1908
Lt Hans Koeppen and the 1908 Great Race
German General Staff officer Lt Koeppen took leave from Berlin to win the Great Race for his Kaiser, and himself.
The SMS Konigsberg and Lettow-Vorbeck
The survivors of the SMS Koingsberg sinking in Africa in 1915 went on to fight for the rest of the war as jungle foot infantry
Blockade and Sinking of SMS Konigsberg
The German cruiser SMS Konigsberg was the hard-to-kill fleet in being that occupied 20 Allied warships for 9 months in WWI before finally sinking her.
The SMS Konigsberg 1914
Born an elegant ship in 1907 the German cruiser SMS Konigsberg found herself at large in the Indian Ocean and on African station at the beginning of WWI.
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Contributing Articles in Military History

 		Trooping the Color: A Brief History
On a Saturday every June, the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, and her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh take part in the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London.
Occupied France: Resistance and Collaboration
While Paris has done its best to promote the myth of the heroic French resistance to the German occupation of 1940-1944, the truth appears to be quite the opposite.
German Tanks of WWII - King Tiger (Tiger II)
The PzKpfw VI heavy battle tank, the Königstiger was known to the allies as the Royal Tiger. It was the heaviest, best protected and most powerfully armed tank in WWII.
Unidentified Flying Objects Uncovered
Designs fueled by the imperative of war produced some of aviation history's most fantastic vehicles. Secret projects that even today seem borrowed from a distant future.
The Battle of Salamis
The battle of Salamis demonstrated the Greek Leopard's agility, strategy, and tactics over the Persian Bear's size, strength, and courage.
Alexander the Great's First Campaign
The first campaign of Alexander the Great as King of Macedonia, was not in Asia and Persia seeking revenge, but in the land of the Triballians, his northern border.
Corsair VC
Robert Gray served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve before gaining his wings with the Fleet Air Arm. After Germany's surrender his unit moved to the Pacific theatre.
Ashigaru
The Ashigaru (light feet) were the common-born infantry of feudal Japanese armies.
Close Range Firearms of the 1700's
Close-quarter firearms were immensely popular in the eighteenth century.
The History of the Bayonet
The bayonet was thought to have orginated in the town of Bayonne, in France, sometime in the 1600's.
Food and Drink in The Roman Army
The army of ancient Rome was one of the first to standardise the issue of rations. The daily ration of Roman soldiers equalled roughly 1.5 kg (3lb 5 oz) of grain.
First Ballistic Missiles
The V-2 rocket was the world's first terror weapon, the first ballistic missile, and the first human projectile to reach sub-orbital spaceflight.
The Fall of Osaka Castle, Japan, 1615
Osaka Castle built between 1583 and 1598, but destroyed in 1615, was made for superlatives. For a start, Its outer fortifications stretched for nine miles.
Afghanistan's Warrior Culture
The tribes of Afghanistan have fought off invasions, evaded occupiers, and expelled foreigners from their land for centuries.
First Nuclear Powered Submarine
The USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the first sub-surface vessel to conduct an underwater transit across the North Pole.
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