John Luther "Casey" Jones is credited with saving others in his capacity as this.
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The Carpathian Winter War, 1915
The “Stalingrad of World War I” was an epic bloodletting between the million-man armies of Russia and the inept Habsburg Empire
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MHQ Reviews: The Great War Seen From the Air
A marvel of a book reproduces and explain the most interesting early aerial images of WWI Flanders, showing us what the war looked like from above
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American Gas
Late in WWI the U.S. Army developed its own deadly chemical weapons, which still haunt a D.C. neighborhood
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MHQ Reviews: 1177 BC
Eric Cline’s new book explores why the large, complex societies of the late Bronze Age collapsed between 1200 to 1100 BC
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MHQ Reviews: War of Attrition
A fast-moving, richly detailed history of World War I
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Stormy Weather
MHQ editor Michael W. Robbins reflects on climate change and warfare
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Carpathian War Sidebar: Eyewitness to Agony
An Austro-Hungarian colonel’s account of the horrors of the winter war in the Carpathians in 1915