Two Italian doctors invent an imaginary disease that helped save thousands of Jews in occupied Nazi territory
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Red Tape: Inside the Viet Cong’s Revolutionary Bureaucracy
Communist fighters in Vietnam relied on a complex network of agents behind the scenes to carry out their plans
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‘Rock Me on the Water’ Review: How California Came to Dominate American Culture
The Eagles took it too easy, Debbie lit up our lives and Bruce (the shark) scared us to death
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Book Review: The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid / The Authentic Life of Ash Upson
John LeMay profiles Ash Upson, ghostwriter of Pat Garrett’s 1882 classic ‘The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid.’
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‘The Bomber Mafia’ Book Review
Malcolm Gladwell addresses carpet bombing during WWII, focusing on U.S. Army Air Forces generals Curtis LeMay and Haywood Hansell
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July 4, 1942: The Mighty Eighth’s First Bombing Raid
The joint American-British Independence Day 1942 air raid was a costly start to the Eighth Air Force’s European bombing campaign…but it was a start
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Shot Down in France, An American Airman’s Fate Remained a Mystery for Decades
Lincoln Bundy was assumed to have died shortly after D-Day. Fifty years would pass before his family learned otherwise
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House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from Capitol
The bill passed in a 285-120 vote
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Where Those Rockets Got Their Red Glare
America owes its national anthem to South Asians who perfected the short-range missile—and sold it to the British.
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How the Longbow Won the Battle of Crug Mawr
In 1136 a Welsh army defeated a fierce Norman force with a unique weapon that changed the course of military history—the longbow.