Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left ...

And Snake Island was raised from the sea bed by the goddess Thetis, as a refuge for the soul of her son, Achilles – yes, the hero of the Trojan War, whose heel spawned an ancient aphorism. According ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

The US shipbuilding industry is a shadow of what it was in the final years of the Cold War. The Navy is reliant on only a handful of major shipbuilders that design and construct different ship ...