In October 2022, waves of another cheap, simple terror weapon descended on civilian centers throughout Ukraine.
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Watch Churchill’s ‘Some Chicken, Some Neck’ Speech
Addressing a Canadian crowd in 1941, Winston Churchill buoyed the Commonwealth’s spirits with a joke about poultry.
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‘Every City Has History, But Berlin Has Too Much’
‘Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World’ is British author Sinclair McKay’s exploration of struggle — and survival — in Germany’s capital during World War II’s final days.
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Why Didn’t Sigmund Freud Flee the Nazis Earlier?
Despite his insights into human behavior and his own identity as a Jew, the father of psychoanalysis failed to see the dangers of Nazism.
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George Washington and John Adams: Founding Frenemies
The sometimes troubled ties that bound the first and second presidents of the United States.
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Book Review: UH-1 Huey Gunship vs NVA/VC Forces
Making the fast transports more dangerous wasn’t easy.
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Why on Earth Did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union?
Historians have been grappling with that question for decades.
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Simon Bolivar’s Secret Weapon in South America: British Veterans
Experienced foreign mercenaries worked with “El Libertador” to hasten the end of Spanish rule in South America.
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It Was the Shot Heard Round the World—and These Women Were There to Hear It
How women nurtured the American Revolution.
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Psyched Out: America’s First Mail-Order Religion
With the promise of acquiring godlike powers, Americans by the thousands ante’d up, hoping for illumination