World War II meat rationing ended for Britain in this year.
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Daily Quiz for August 31, 2014
The first-ever Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in this city.
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Daily Quiz for August 30, 2014
Senate Bill 1424, passed in 1908, created this United States military organization.
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Daily Quiz for August 29, 2014
This recipient of multiple Olympic Gold Medals was unable to walk until she was eight.
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Book Review: The Lion’s Gate, by Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield steps out on a ledge with The Lion’s Gate, his “hybrid history” of the Six-Day War, and the resulting narrative is vivid and impossible to set down.
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Book Review: The Long Shadow, by David Reynolds
Cambridge professor David Reynolds has a look at World War I from his side of the Atlantic.
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Book Review: 102 Days of War, by Yaniv Barzilai
Yaniv Barzilai, a State Department special rep during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, delivers a controversial account of those early days.
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Book Review: Blücher, by Michael V. Leggiere
In his latest Napoleonic-era title Michael Leggiere profiles Prussian master commander Gebhard von Blücher.
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Charles Howard: A Wild and Splendid Man
An aristocratic title couldn’t keep the venturesome Earl of Suffolk from life on the razor’s edge in wartime Europe
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Interview: William Philpott / World War I Historian
In his new book War of Attrition, British historian William Philpott re-examines the causes, conduct and lasting effects of World War I.