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INTERVIEW: Rick Atkinson / American Army’s Bloody Coming of Age
Ten years ago, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson began a three-volume history entitled […]
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Down East to Down South: Four green Maine regiments fought at the First Battle of Bull Run
As war clouds gathered over America, Israel Washburn, Maine’s newly elected governor, downplayed the danger to the republic in his 1861 inaugural address.
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Portraits of the Mutiny
British artists’ imaginative depictions of the 1857 sepoy rebellion helped fan the flames of […]
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Kill-Cavalry’s Ride to the Sea
William T. Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick ‘a hell of a damned fool’—just the man […]
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MHQ Book Review: Retribution
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945 Max Hastings, (Random House, 2008), 656 pages, $35. […]
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Confederate Cavalryman in the Wilderness
Unaware of the titanic clashes around him, this Civil War soldier followed orders but […]
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Garibaldi’s Panoramic Exploits
Before photography, people flocked to panoramas to gaze at far-flung scenes painted on huge […]
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FDR Sees the Elephant
Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt met with kings and presidents, toured the front, fired […]
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In the Dark and Out of Luck
Modern American intelligence gathering, not yet a science, can still leave military forces lost […]