This woman was known as Britain’s "Iron Lady."
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Daily Quiz for January 30, 2010
Japan launched balloon bombs from submarines during World War II, hoping the incendiary devices would undermine American home-front morale. The bombs were made from a combination of these two items
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Donald Miller’s WWII Reading List
Historian Donald L. Miller shares his reading list with WORLD WAR II magazine.
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Edward J. Drea on Japan’s Imperial Army
With Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945, the eminent scholar Edward J. Drea caps an impressive career devoted to the study of the history of Japanese military affairs.
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After the Battle of the Bulge, Nothing Seemed the Same—Even Snow
When Frank J. Conwell was a child, wintry conditions meant frolicking outside in the snow. But in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, where Conwell served with the 1st Infantry Division’s 436th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, the conditions meant something else altogether.
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Smoke Over Manhattan: The Fate of the SS Normandie
When the SS Normandie, a luxury liner being converted into the USS Lafayette troop transport, went up in flames in 1942, New Yorkers assumed it was the work of Nazi saboteurs—and made a deal with the devil to protect their waterfront
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If you traveled back in time to the Old West, what town would you visit first?
If you traveled back in time to the Old West, what town would you visit first?
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Daily Quiz for January 29, 2010
To improve cooperation between the nations fighting Germany and its allies in World War I, a Supreme War Council was created during a November 1917 meeting in this country.
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Was last night’s State of the Union Address good, bad or average?
Was last night’s State of the Union Address good, bad or average?
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Daily Quiz for January 28, 2010
Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, who tried to hide from the public the fact that his polio-weakened legs often required him to use a wheelchair, this president also hid the fact that he frequently needed the aid of crutches.