A painter launches his career with novel portrayals of Louis XIV’s war-weary soldiers. Jean-Antoine […]
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Saboteurs at Work
Special operations are never as slick as Hollywood suggests, but sometimes—despite huge obstacles and […]
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Emperor Vs. Pirate: Tunis 1535
Suleiman’s proxy, pirate Khair ad-Din “Barbarossa,” bet that he could defend Tunis against Charles […]
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Death Boards the Essex
U.S. Navy captain David Porter bore the elements of greatness—but his epic 1812 Pacific […]
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Lincoln’s Choice: The Dakota War
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln personally decided who among 303 […]
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Behind the Lines: Scuttled at Scapa Flow, 1919
The final cruise of the German High Seas Fleet. It was 9:30 a.m. when […]
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Unknown Soldier: Being There
British military engineer John Montrésor somehow found himself in the thick of things whenever […]
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MHQ Winter 2014- Comments
U.S. Forests Fair Game in WWII Bill Yenne’s well-done though rather too concise article […]
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Voices | Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage, a Navy adviser assisting South Vietnamese units during the war and later […]
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Before He Was a Hero on 9/11, He Was a Hero in Vietnam
In Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley and at the World Trade Center, Rick Rescorla helped others get out alive.