In one of those ironic twists of history, a monument erected to honor Confederate troops who fought at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg somehow now bears the name of a Union general.
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Book Review: Never Call Me A Hero
In his wartime memoirs, Norman Jack Kleiss outlines his incredible military career, his skill making a huge impact in the infamous Battle of Midway
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Book Review: Spies in the Congo
Author Susan Williams delivers a compelling, action-filled narrative on American spy efforts to stop the Nazis from creating the atomic bomb
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Book Review: The Lost Eleven
The massacre of 11 black soldiers of 333rd Field Artillery Battalion at Wereth had their deaths ignored for years. The Lost Eleven finally tells their story
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Weapons Check | MG 42
Few firearms in history have achieved the notoriety of the Maschinengewehr 42, a general-purpose machine gun designed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II.
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Brown Water Admiral
Hard-charging Elmo Zumwalt’s Operation Sealords blasted the Viet Cong out of the waters of the Mekong Delta
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Bill Cody: On the Trail of the Indians
“I was soon alongside of the chap who had wounded me. Raising myself in the strirrups, I shot him through the head.”
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Fighting ‘Too Fast’: The Texas Brigade paid a high price at Sharpsburg for its fighting prowess
Military historian and Civil War Times advisory board member Susannah J. Ural’s new book, […]
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Daily Quiz for September 19, 2017
Admiral Chester Nimitz is most noted for his service during this war.
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CWT Book Review: Confederate Invention
Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors H. […]