A daring rescue by air during the Vietnam War.
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Book Review: Dien Bien Phu 1954 / The French Defeat That Lured America Into Vietnam
An overconfident French force gets trounced in Vietnam — with consequences for the U.S.
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Colonel Sanders’ Home Is for Sale — With His Fried Chicken Recipe
Just not that recipe.
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This Ancient Sunken City Has Reappeared in Iraq
The 3,400-year-old city yielded a trove of important artifacts from a mysterious ancient civilization.
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Why on Earth Did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union?
Historians have been grappling with that question for decades.
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Fort Worth Five: The Wild Bunch Photo
There’s more than meets the eye in this famous photo of Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and their friends.
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The Little Bighorn: Art for the Ages
A gory painting from his childhood makes a lifelong impression on a future Wild West expert.
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‘A-20 Havoc’: The Unglamorous Yet Most Versatile Combat Aircraft of World War II
There’s no shortage of books about airplanes, but here are a few more you may find of interest, with subject matter that ranges all over the world.
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Black Tuesday: Why the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Was So Terrible
It was a national financial collapse — and a loose-lipped Winston Churchill somehow made it worse.
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Hitler’s Favorite Boxer Fought Joe Louis Twice—and Became His Lifelong Friend
Louis, America’s heavyweight champion and a Black man, duked it out with Max Schmeling, who had become a symbol for the racist Nazi regime.