Barrett Tillman’s book offers an impressive 360-degree look at the 1944-45 air offensive.
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How American Operatives Saved the Man Who Started the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh guerrilla fighters, led by future NVA General Vo Nguyen Giap, were allies of the Americans and given training by the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, in an effort to defeat the Japanese during the waning days of World War II
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How the Six-Day War Sparked Forty Years of Strife
Israel’s 1967 surprise attack obliterated the Arab forces arrayed against it, and set the stage for decades of conflict and insecurity.
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Two Ways to Approach One War: August/September 2009
Two Civil Wars await anyone seeking to understand our transformative national trial.
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J.F.C. “Boney” Fuller – Wacko Genius of Armored Warfare
In the wake of World War I, British Army officer J.F.C. “Boney” Fuller advocated innovative tank tactics, but only Germany’s Wehrmacht listened to him
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War Behind The Wire: Koje-do Prison Camp
Americans learned a hard lesson when North Korean prisoners took over their compound-and kidnapped a general.
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Interview: Edward Zwick / “Defiance”
Ed Zwick, director of the movie Defiance, talks in an exclusive interview with History Net about the film, the history behind its story, and why he is drawn to films about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, such as the Bielski brothers.
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Interview: Drew Gilpin Faust / Death and Civil War America
Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” a thoughtful study of the impact of the war’s massive death toll on society and government.
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Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh
At the beginning of the Tet Offensive, one rifle company was ordered to to clear the village of Ho Nai, a Bien Hoa suburb. No infantry school tactic fit the situation; improvisation became the order of the day.
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Grenade! The Little-Known Weapon of the Civil War
Grenades were used in the Civil War from Vicksburg to Petersburg, but they were often as dangerous to their users as to their targets.