The wavering French High Command, not any technological failings, spelled the doom of the vaunted Gallic fortifications
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Al Williams: Gulfhawk Impresario
Despite Al Williams’ impressive list of aviation accomplishments, the racing, test and aerobatic pilot’s […]
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Surveying D-Day’s Aftermath at Omaha Beach
The author, a gunner with the 447th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion, survived five European campaigns and the bloody beaches of Normandy.
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Pint-Sized Heroes
Young Civil War drummers weren’t there just for show. They played a vital role for both armies.
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Transformation at Saratoga
The clash at Saratoga in the early autumn of 1777 was a crucial victory–some […]
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Rebel with a Lost Cause
Exiled Roman commander Quintus Sertorius waged a guerrilla-style civil war in Hispania, where time proved his greatest enemy
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The Kaiser’s Last Battle
Overshadowed by the tragedies at Verdun and the Somme, the Germans’ 1918 Spring Offensive was nevertheless an apocalyptic storm that would herald Imperial Germany’s darkest hour.
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Corporal Hitler: Hero or Deserter?
As the Nazi Party rose to power in 1930s Germany, the World War I record of its would-be Führer came under public scrutiny
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Book Review: Blood Moon
John Sedgwick relates the drama and figures behind the intertribal clash dubbed the “Cherokee Holocaust”