Biography
OTTO WILHELM KĂ–NIGSMARCK
Although Morosini held overall command of Venetian forces, it would be Königsmarck who led most of the successful land campaigns. SWEDISH GENERAL WHO LED THE VENETIAN MILITARY CONQUEST OF MOREA 1639-88 SWEDEN Although Swedish, Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck was born in Minden, Northern Germany, where his mother had been accompanying his father on military campaigns. Following these campaigns, the family resided…
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Subotai the Valiant Part I
The old blacksmith and his two sons struggled through the knee-deep snow, making their way down the steep mountainside toward Temujin’s camp. The three of them had come a long way from the dark forest of the taiga west of Lake Baikal that was their home. Up ahead, within sight,…
Subotai the Valiant Part II
In 1203, Jamuga and the Oga Kahn had raised a large army from the remaining tribes and brought Temujin to battle at a place called the Red Willows. Badly outnumbered, Temujin’s army fought the enemy coalition to a draw but suffered such heavy casualties that Temujin was forced to withdraw.…
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
“In his hand, the marshal’s staff was more than just an ornament!” it was said of Bavaria’s heir to the throne, Crown Prince Rupprecht, who both served a Kaiser and frightened a future Nazi FĂĽhrer. The noted German author Blohm referred to Rupprecht as “A man of simple tastes who…
HĹŤjĹŤ Masako
1157–1225 The Nun Shogun Two centuries after early chapters of The Tale of Genji circulated at the Heian court, a brand new sort of literature was doing the rounds in Japan. Its delight in the intimate repartee that passes between a woman and a man would have been familiar to…
Gen. Karl Litzmann
Revered in German martial history during 1914–18, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Hermann Litzmann (1850–1936) later joined the Nazi pantheon of Great War heroes as well. Born on January 22, 1850 at Neuglobsow, Stechlin, in the ancient Mark of Brandenburg, Litzmann was awarded the Blue Max by the Kaiser on November 29,…
Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849–1945)
“He was bold in front of the enemy, and only feared God,” it was said of August von Mackensen, the Kaiser’s favorite soldier and the House of Hohenzollern’s last appointed general field marshal (GFM). So asserted the official 1938 work Prussian-German Field Marshals & Grand Admirals, published postwar in Berlin.…