Like many a scientist on the eve of World War II, R. V. Jones […]
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Conversation with Gerhard Weinberg: What We Still Have to Learn about the War
Gerhard Weinberg is one of America’s leading historians of World War II. In 1958, […]
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WWII Today- August 2007
Japanese Prime Minister Sparks a New Uproar Over Apology to Wartime “Comfort Women” Under […]
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Busted! A dedicated FBI agent rescued treasured Civil War artifacts from thieves, swindlers, and unscrupulous collectors
Over an illustrious 20-year career, FBI agent Robert K. Wittman recovered an estimated $300 million worth of stolen artworks and historical relics. Notably, these included many precious Civil War artifacts which preserve for all of us the memory of America’s greatest struggle.
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Classic Dispatches | Massacre at Majuba
Thomas Fortescue Carter had never before worked as a war correspondent when he found […]
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Battle at Dong Xoai: ‘Swarming Over the Walls’
In 1965, a powerful Viet Cong force threatened to annihilate a Green Beret base at Dong Xoai
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News: Dead Men Do Tell Tales
In 2014, Manassas National Battlefield Park employees digging a maintenance trench discovered evidence of […]
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Daily Quiz for August 14, 2018
Atlanta became the capital of Georgia in this year.
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What If Japan Hadn’t Attacked Pearl Harbor?
We explore the scenarios that might have occurred had the U.S. not suffered the Pearl Harbor attack.
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WWII Review: Amsterdam in WWII
One current image of Amsterdam is as a kind of Dutch Sodom, a tulip- […]