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Did Russia Really Go It Alone? How Lend-Lease Helped the Soviets Defeat the Germans

by Alexander Hill7/12/20085/16/2022

The Soviets have long insisted that Lend-Lease aid made little difference. Newly discovered files tell another story.

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In direct reprisal for the killing of Nazi Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech agents, this town was completely destroyed and thousands of its residents murdered.

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The 9 Lives of General John Brown Gordon

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Indestructible Confederate general John B. Gordon survived multiple wounds and serious illnesses during the Civil War. From First Manassas to Appomattox, he proved nothing could keep a good man down.

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This ancient Briton mounted a guerrilla uprising against the Romans in AD 43.

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He served as a seaman on the destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.

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This treaty is variously known as the Definitive Treaty of Peace, the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles.

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In the winter of 1778, American troops stationed at this fort on the Hudson River nicknamed the place ‘Point Purgatory.’

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