A lifelong adventurer steered into unexpected trouble while serving in the Afrika Corps. DURING […]
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Double Jeopardy: Two Crises for the Germans
For the Germans in July 1943, two crises at once proved too much to […]
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Time Travel: Island Hopping Campaign
THE WINDS SWEEPING Adak Island, feral gusts surpassing 60 miles an hour, snarled rain […]
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Their Darkest Hour: With Friends Like These
THE SECOND WORLD War was not the simple story of good versus evil that […]
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A Hard Look Back at Burma: Conversation with Morris Factor
AT AGE 93, Morris Factor still endures bouts of dengue fever, which he contracted […]
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The Reading List- Duff McKagan
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Rise of Nazi Power Andrew Nagorski (2012) “Nagorski illustrates […]
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WWII Today- December 2013
German Magazine Glorifies SS, Critics Complain German-language pulp magazine Der Landser takes its name […]
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A Broken Bond? The Little Round Top Feud Between Joshua Chamberlain and Ellis Spear
The 20th Maine’s epic stand and bayonet charge at Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, secured that regiment’s place in military history.
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Heart of the Southern War Machine: The Augusta Powder Works was an unparalleled accomplishment of military industry
A bearded Confederate colonel walked slowly to a tall flag pole and looked up […]