Americans learned a hard lesson when North Korean prisoners took over their compound-and kidnapped a general.
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Letters from the Front – Correspondence Spanning Two Centuries of American War
Correspondence from a two-century span of American wars, from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. Several feature audio recordings, including Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., reading the letter he wrote home about his experiences as a POW in World War II.
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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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USS Galena: De-evolution of a Warship
The ironclad USS Galena failed to live up to its “impervious” reputation and ended its career as a wooden-walled warship, but it saved lives at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
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Muhammad: The Warrior Prophet
Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was also a truly great general. In the space of a single decade he fought eight major battles, led eighteen raids, and planned another thirty-eight military operations.
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Allied Airborne Forces in World War II: Surviving the Devil’s Cauldron
Only those hardened to adversity, resilient to the stress of the unknown, and capable of adapting to ever-changing circumstances could survive in the devil’s cauldron that was the airborne soldier’s battlefield of World War II.
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America’s Civil War: Where Does Private Jemison Rest
Where is the final resting place of Confederate Private Edwin F. Jemison, killed at Malvern Hill?
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Napoleon’s Total War
When Revolutionary France declared war on the Austrian empire in the spring of 1792, […]
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Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War
Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take. South Vietnamese paratroopers became a breakwater against the Communist flood.
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Hungary’s War of Independence
Learning quickly from its initial defeats, Hungary’s National Army won astounding victories in 1849, but it could not prevail against the combined Imperial forces of Austria and Russia.
By János B. Szabó