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Operation Dragoon: The Other D-Day, and the Summer the Provence Vineyards Got Their Harvest Back
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PART 1: Military History The South of France as a Second Front By the summer of 1944, the Allied problem in France was not that…
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Mississippi Rifles in Wine Country: The Skirmish at Rancho Olómpali
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PART 1: Military History California on the Edge, 1846 In the early summer of 1846, California was still nominally Mexican, but not in any way…
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Fort George, Icewine, and the Guns That Cracked the Niagara
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PART 1: Military History A Narrow River That Decided a War Most Americans remember the War of 1812, if they remember it at all, as…
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Caporetto: Where the Front Collapsed and the Vineyards Survived
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PART 1: Military History A Border Drawn and Redrawn The hills north of the Gulf of Trieste have been a contested seam for as long…
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Posted On AncientA Drunken Duel in Stone: Dionysus Defeats Hercules on Ancient Sarcophagus
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While not strictly wine and warfare, this find is still a battle—and a fascinating one at that! Archaeologists in Israel recently uncovered a unique 1,700-year-old…
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Posted On OverviewIntroduction to Vini Bellum
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This site has been nearly 20 years in the making. My interest in the connection between warfare and wine began during a trip to Europe,…
