A U.S. Army?mandated exploration led by A. W. Greeley resulted in death and cannibalism among members of the expedition in this region.
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Daily Quiz for May 25, 2009
In the 1870s, America’s navy could have been overcome by "a single ironclad mounting four rifled guns," according to this man.
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Daily Quiz for May 23, 2009
The in-laws of this wife of a future president described her as displaying "more independence of judgment than was fitting in one woman."
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Destination Normandy
The men of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne led the way on D-Day by seizing and defending two bridges spanning the Canal de Carentan. Excerpted from Tonight We Die As Men by Ian Gardner and Roger Day.
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A Sidelined Patton Shares His Philosophy on Leadership
Patton was relegated to an essentially minor role during the historic Normandy landings. Crushed that he was missing “the opening kick off,” a restless Patton whittled away the hours writing in his diary and sending off letters, including the following to his son, a cadet at West Point.
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Hitler’s Diarist Offers Intimate Glimpses of the Führer
The recollections of an anonymous German lieutenant colonel who served as Hitler’s war diarist in his Berlin bunker during World War II—and who says he dined with the Nazi leader more than 30 times—were auctioned off this spring by the British auction house Mullock’s. Historians are marveling at his up-close observations of everything from Hitler’s musical preferences to his favorite cuisine.
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Film Spurs Russia to Squelch Criticism of Soviet War Tactics
A television documentary about the Red Army’s enormous death toll during World War II—called “Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov’s Unknown Battle”—has drawn a fierce backlash in Russia, where the “Great Patriotic War” has been viewed in recent decades as a time of noble sacrifice.
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Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Identified
JULY 2009 — There may not be a more memorable—or terrifying—way to have been […]
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High Seas Spy Arrest Helped Safeguard Operation Torch
JULY 2009 — The Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942 is celebrated […]