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WWII Review: Whittle- The Jet Pioneer
Whittle- The Jet Pioneer: His Race Against Time And The Nazis Directed by Nicholas […]
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Lam Son 719 South Vietnam Invades Laos, 1971
The Vietnam War’s best historian examines the costly attack on an enemy sanctuary. On […]
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Somehow Blow the Bridge
U.S. Marine advisors undertake a herculean task to stem the onrushing tide of the […]
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FILM RECON Interview: Daniel Brühl of “The Zookeeper’s Wife”
Veteran German actor Daniel Brühl spoke to Paraag Shukla and Claire Barrett of World War […]
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Delta-Wing Trailblazer
Sam Shannon was that rare example of an accomplished test pilot who never crashed […]
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FILM RECON: “Five Came Back” review
SNAPSHOT: Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau’s excellent Netflix documentary, Five Came Back, is adapted from Mark […]
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Airmail’s First Day
The Post Office called on Army Air Service pilots to carry the first airmail. Despite numerous hardships, the first flying postmen usually made their appointed rounds.
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When the Mongols Met Their March
In 1260 at the spring of Ayn J¯al¯ut in Palestine, an Egyptian Mamluk army […]
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Book Review: The Bishop’s Boys, by Tom Crouch
The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Tom Crouch On […]