Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Game Review: Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition
Revisiting a classic, game reviewer Chris Ketcherside dives into “Axis and Allies” anniversary edition—a board game well known and loved by many.
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Book Review: A Dangerous Woman by Susan Ronald
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
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Book Review: Glory in Their Spirit
In “Glory in Their Spirit,” author Sandra M. Bolzenius uncovers the tensions surrounding the military regarding race and sex during World War II.
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Teenage Mediums Out-Foxed the Public
Fancy footwork convinced crowds sisters could chat with the dead
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The Man Who Started World War II Was a ‘Killer Without Shame’
Alfred Naujocks was an SS expert in dirty deeds done well, charged with making Poland appear a villain.
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Announcing! The 2019 Thomas Fleming Award for Outstanding Military History Writing
Call for Entries MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History is pleased to invite […]
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Aleutian Battleground
When Allied troops moved to retake the Alaskan island of Attu in 1943, the place itself proved tougher than the Japanese
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Daily Quiz for January 18, 2019
Post-Reconstruction racial segregation laws are often referred to using this term.
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Book Review: Asperger’s Children / The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children’s hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior” failed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.