The U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division was at the forefront of many of the […]
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WWII Review: Black Book
Black Book (2006) Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, et al. […]
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WWII Book Review: LeMay- A Biography
LeMay: A Biography By Barrett Tillman. 206 pp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $21.95 Curtis LeMay […]
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WWII Book Review: The Battle for the Rhine..
The Battle for the Rhine, The Battle of the Bulge and the Ardennes Campaign, […]
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Bombs that were Smart Before their Time
The Nazis had them fifty years before Desert Storm made precision weapons look like a modern invention.
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Red Sabers: J. E. B. Stuart, Soviet Cavalry Guru
Taking a page from J. E. B. Stuart, Soviet horsemen proved that the cavalry […]
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The MacArthur No One Knew
The legendary general’s renown as a military strategist owes much to his deft cribbing […]
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‘We Shall Fight On the Beaches…’
My fascination with military fortifications began when I was a child, watching soldiers training […]
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The Jewish General Behind the Luftwaffe
It was late morning on a summer Friday in Berlin—July 31, 1936—and the train […]
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Ken Burns on Why World War II Still Matters
Seventeen years after The Civil War copped dozens of awards, including two Emmys and […]