John Sadler studies the reasons behind the failure of Operation Agreement, the 1942 Allied raid on Axis-occupied Tobruk
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Book Review: The Defence of Sevastopol
Clayton Donnell looks at the World War II fight for the Crimean Peninsula, with present-day implications
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Book Review: The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle
Paul Paillole profiles Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a German cipher clerk who sold key information to Allied intelligence in World War II
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Bob Hoover: Remembering the Pilots’ Pilot
Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all […]
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Book Review: Consequence
Eric Fair’s Iraq War memoir exposes the inner workings of interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib prison
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Book Review: Betrayal of an Army
N.S. Nash chronicles the World War I campaign in Mesopotamia, fought for oil and beset by “mission creep”
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From Dixie to the Land of the Rising Sun
How CSS Stonewall became the Japanese Navy’s First Ironclad Midshipman Alfred Thayer Mahan immediately […]
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Daily Quiz for October 27, 2016
This song was the first published jazz composition.
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Fistful of Firepower
The LeMat was a self-contained arsenal of devastation. With a revolving cylinder that held […]
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Audio: What Did Culinary Habits Of World War I Have To do With The Great Depression
Jane Ziegelman, co authors of “A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression”, talks about the culinary connection between World War I and the great depression.