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Escape From Corregidor: The Story of Edgar Whitcomb
American airman Edgar Whitcomb defied the odds against the Japanese—five times
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Why Did Truman Fire MacArthur? David McCullough on the War Behind the Wars
Harry S. Truman’s distinguished biographer recounts events surrounding the headline that stunned the world.
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The Adventures of Mutt and Jeff
Named by MI5 for comic strip characters, two Nazi spies working for Britain proved […]
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WWII Today- April 2011
Russia Finally Condemns Stalin In a major break with precedent, the Russian parliament officially […]
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What If the Tarawa Invasion Had Failed?
It is early morning on November 20, 1943. An American fleet stands off Tarawa […]
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Juan Trippe’s World
How one ambitious American businessman—and his fleet of silver planes—helped the Allies win the […]
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War Letters: A General Argues That No Man is Too Valuable to Hold a Rifle
On February 27, 1942, Brigadier General Ralph McTyeire Pennell, the commander of the 27th […]
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The Prime Minister and the Professor: Confidence Man
Churchill’s friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister’s full faith— even when he […]
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A Moment Full of Peril: Harpers Ferry, 1859
When John Brown seized Harpers Ferry and threatened to spark a slave insurrection, officials in Washington concluded only one man could stop him: Colonel Robert E. Lee.