The German 88: The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War by Terry […]
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Military History Book Review: Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East by David Stahel, Cambridge University Press, […]
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Military History Book Review: Hero Found
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson, Harper, […]
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Military History Book Review: The War for Korea, 1950–1951
The War for Korea, 1950–1951: They Came From the North by Allan R. Millett, […]
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Military History Book Review: Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre, Harmony Books, New York, 2010, $25.99 Forget the Battle […]
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Rome’s Big Idea
A grand long-term strategy allowed Roman rulers—both good and bad—to shape the empire’s destiny. […]
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Justice by Firing Squad
Tried for ordering the execution of American prisoners of war, a German general ultimately […]
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The Unexpected Guerrilla
In World War I Africa, an obscure German officer became one of the world’s […]
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Private Henry L. Hulbert: The Gentleman Marine
By the time he died in a hail of German machine-gun fire on France’s […]
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What We Learned: from the Siege of Vicksburg
In early 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant, with help from the Western Gunboat Flotilla, […]