The incredible story of thousands of soldier photographs and letters that never made it home
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‘The Age of Wood’ Review: The Simple Stuff That Created Civilization
When protohumans climbed down from trees, they chopped them down and used them to create a new world
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Engineering Victory
Given their expertise with explosives, tunnelers like Coulson Norman Mitchell were repurposed and sent forward to decommission German demolition charges
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Civilians Were Dead at My Lai. I Was Asked to Pick an Investigator.
The Article 32 investigation and subsequent court-martial of 1st Lt. William Calley over the My Lai massacre further marred public sentiment over the Vietnam War.
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The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion
A poet’s tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I
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‘Ambitious Honor’ Book Review
James Mueller captures the essence of Custer, a man who perpetually defies one-dimensional dismissals of his character
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‘Mussolini’s War’ Book Review
John Gooch relates the incompetence and unpreparedness of Italy’s military during World War II
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Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
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This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo
Imagine the poor PFC tasked with lugging around Napoleon’s personal bathtub
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Oliver Otis Howard: Westward, Christian Soldier
General O.O. Howard found grace and lost an arm during the Civil War before heading west to confront Apache leader Cochise and Nez Perce Chief Joseph.