On terrain that favored his rifleman, rough-hewn American general routed overconfident British regulars
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The Stranger-Than-Fiction Career of the OSS’s Carl Eifler
The colonel headed a clandestine operations program that required brute force, innovation, and a strange-looking submarine.
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The Military Genius Behind D-Day’s Do-It-All Tanks
Superiors branded him “difficult.” Yet Percy Hobart was just the kind of genius the Allies desperately needed.
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Book Review: The Best of 2006
As any buff knows, the term “World War II” is something of a misnomer. […]
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Bay of Pigs: The Perfect Failure
Sixty-one years later, it’s still unclear who deserves the blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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How Mao Zedong Formed Communist China
Experience gained fighting the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek helped a dynamic military leader take on the United States twice, to victory and a draw
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The Youngest Marshal Saves the Day for Napoleon
Louis Davout expected to play a secondary role in the Jena campaign, but when […]
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Precision Bass: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Instrumental Soul
Leo Fender’s rhythmic innovation powered the music of a generation
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Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
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Maitland Bleecker’s Forgotten Whirlybird
Bleecker beat Igor Sikorsky to the punch by developing a fully controllable helicopter in 1930, only to see his invention abandoned for want of a $90 part.