Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front By Todd DePastino. 320 pp. W. W. Norton, […]
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Book Review: Atomic Controversy
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan […]
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Rocket Dreaming
Ill-fated efforts to build rocket-powered fighters gave wartime aviation visionaries a humbling lesson in […]
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Babe in Arms
War and life in Hitler’s Germany through the eyes of an eight-year-old.
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Churchill’s Secret Army
Britain’s last resort against a Nazi invasion was a guerrilla force trained to carry out suicidal missions of terror and sabotage.
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The Code Breaker Who Exposed a Secret German Language
There was no normal way to become a code breaker in World War II; […]
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Rising From Its Brutal Past, Warsaw Transforms Itself
Outside Warsaw’s Centralna Station I face the grayest day I have ever seen. The […]
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WWII Today: November 2009
Archaeologists Search for a Lost Marine Patrol on Guadalcanal It was a dark, moonless […]
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Daily Quiz for April 23, 2018
This U.S. president is considered to be the first to appear in a movie.
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Daily Quiz for April 22, 2018
Songwriter Vic Mizzy wrote the popular theme song to the 1960’s TV show “Green Acres” and the theme song to this show.