Images from George Armstrong Custer’s war path
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Portfolio: A Fashion Photographer in World War II
Cecil Beaton turned scenes from World War II into objets d’art
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‘Kick the Bully’: Michael Collins Launches the 1921 Irish Rebellion
Leading Irish rebels to victory over Britain in 1921, Michael Collins wrote the script for the Vietcong and Taliban.
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Fiction Excerpt: Arrows Over Poitiers, 1356
How English archers devised a key strategy for victory at the Battle of Poitiers
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The War List: Aces High
Aviation expert Jon Guttman picks history’s top 10 fighter pilots.
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Fighting Words: Vietnam Vernacular
The origins of the terms “tunnel rats,” “boat people,” and more
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The Gun That Should Have Changed Everything
An 1864 battle in Denmark foretold the advent of mechanized death
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Korean ‘Comfort Women’: Japan’s World War II Sex Slaves
Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women to be sex slaves in World War II
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Letter From Military History – January 2013
“History is written by the victors” remains among the hoariest aphorisms of military history, especially in the age of open digital archives.