James Falkner studies the life and career of vaunted military engineer Sebastien le Prestre in Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV’s France.
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Book Review: The Book of Ancient Bastards / 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds from Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment
Brian Thornton’s new Book of Ancient Bastards is a tongue-in-cheeky profile of historic figures from ancient times through the Enlightenment.
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Book Review: Lost Legion Rediscovered, by Donald O’Reilly
In Lost Legion Rediscovered author Donald O’Reilly considers the facts behind the legend of Rome’s mythic Theban Legend.
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Book Review: France at Bay, 1870-1871, by Douglas Fermer
Douglas Fermer delves deeper into the personalities and places of the Franco-Prussian War with his second volume, France at Bay, 1870-1871.
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Game Review: Air Conflicts: Secret Wars, by Kalypso Media USA
Kalypso Media USA’s aerial combat game Air Conflicts: Secret Wars presents 49 missions from both world wars, featuring more than a dozen historical aircraft.
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Studebaker US6: The Lend-Lease ‘Deuce and a Half’
Studebaker built tens of thousands of US6 “Deuce and a Half” trucks for the wartime Lend-Lease program, most destined for the Soviet Union.
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Heinecke Parachute: A Leap of Faith for WWI German Airmen
The Heinecke parachute proved a gamble to the first German airmen to use it, but it beat the odds of surviving a fiery plunge from the sky.
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Interview: David Silbey / Historian
Cornell historian David J. Silbey takes an in-depth look at China’s 1900 Boxer Rebellion in his new book, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China.
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Emory Upton and the Shaping of the U.S. Army
How one soldier’s combat experiences and study of the world’s great military powers led to a tactical revolution.
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Truman Smith: The American Who Saw Hitler Coming
Military attaché Truman Smith was the first American diplomat to meet a local agitator in Munich named Adolf Hitler, and among the first to warn of Germany’s military resurgence. His reports were timely, prescient—and largely ignored.