Andrew Nagorski focuses on the fateful year Adolf Hitler all but ensured the destruction of the Third Reich
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President Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to Retired Four-Star Gen. Jack Keane
On March 10, President Donald Trump awarded retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane with the […]
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Photos: How the Top Secret ‘Ghost Army’ Fooled Enemies With Fake Weapons and Sound Effects
One unit had perhaps the oddest assignment in the U.S. Army: Create a fake force, but make it look and sound real.
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Neal Bascomb’s ‘Faster’: How a Jewish Driver and an American Heiress Beat Hitler on the Racetrack
You have the Jesse Owens upset at the 1936 Olympics. The American […]
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Daily Quiz for March 12, 2020
At the instigation of the CIA, this man was assassinated on 2 November 1963.
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Orton Williams, an old suitor to Robert E. Lee’s daughter Agnes
Early in the Civil War, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, then still the general-in-chief of […]
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This American Rifle became a Dependable Weapon for the Redcoats
The Sharps carbine rifle
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Military History Book Review: The Awful End of Prince William the Silent
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent by Lisa Jardin, HarperCollins Publishers, New […]
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Military History Book Review: Gunpowder
Gunpowder—Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World by […]
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Leonard Wood embodied early U.S. imperialism
Who commanded the Rough Riders in 1898? Not Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; he was […]