Introduced at the turn of the 20th century, the improved Short Magazine Lee-Enfield served as British soldiers standard long arm through both world wars.
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Book Review: In the Hour of Victory, by Sam Willis
Drawing on a newly discovered cache of period dispatches, Sam Willis looks anew on the turn-of-the-19th-century clashes that ushered in the “veritable golden age of British naval success.”
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Book Review: Alex’s Wake, by Martin Goldsmith
In this very personal history Martin Goldsmith retraces the ultimately futile flight of his grandfather, his uncle and their fellow European Jews from the far-reaching grasp of Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.
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Book Review: The Most Dangerous Man in America, by Mark Perry
Mark Perry reexamines the life and career of General Douglas MacArthur, among the best known — and controversial — American military leaders.
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Book Review: Für Volk and Führer, by Erwin Bartmann
The late German Corporal Erwin Bartmann’s memoir of service with one of the initial units of the wartime Waffen-SS offers an instructive glimpse into the heart of the Nazi war machine.
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Book Review: The Lost Book of Alexander the Great, by Andrew Young
Through “literary forensics” Andrew Young seeks to re-create Ptolemy’s lost history of Alexander the Great, an ultimately impossible task.
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Daily Quiz for July 2, 2014
On August 24, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across this body of water
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What was Plan B if the Atomic Bombs Hadn’t Worked?
Even after the second atomic bomb was dropped at Nagasaki, and the Soviets entered […]
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Daily Quiz for July 1, 2014
The first Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) went into service in this year.
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Daily Quiz for June 30, 2014
In 1991 this Russian city was renamed Saint Petersburg.