Its Char B1 tanks proved too much for the Wehrmacht’s armor—but even they couldn’t withstand irresolute Allied leadership.
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Forlorn Victory
The 1917 Battle of Passchendaele was a three-month slog through mud, blood, guts, rats and raining death
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Book Review: Hue 1968
Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, examines the victory that sparked the political debate that lost the Vietnam War
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Book Review: The Second Anglo-Sikh War
Amarpal Singh follows his history of the First Anglo-Sikh War with this excellent companion volume
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Book Review: The Second World Wars
Victor Davis Hanson provides and thorough and original analysis of events surrounding World War II
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Book Review: Becoming Hitler
Thomas Weber looks at the transformative events that turned a moody loner into the messianic German Führer
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Book Review: The Struggle for Sea Power
Sam Willis provides a comprehensive naval history of the war that birthed our nation
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Book Review: Sevastopol’s Wars
Mungo Melvin catalogs the clashes that have bloodied one of the world’s most fought-over pieces of ground
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Dragging Canoe’s War
A war chief’s ingenious defense of the Cherokee homeland. Late on the sultry afternoon […]
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Book Review: Blitzkrieg
Lloyd Clark re-examines the May 1940 German thrust into France, starting gun of World War II