The country’s bloodiest war has been captured in novels, memoirs, and battle narratives. Here are 10 classics
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First Blood at Big Bethel
A skirmish near the tip of Virginia’s Peninsula served as a harbinger of the four-year bloodbath to come
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Gideon Welles Blockades Charleston Harbor
The one-way voyage of the Stone Fleet: An aging armada sets course to become […]
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A Nation Divided
Responses to The Confederacy: America’s Worst Idea So many people insist on viewing the […]
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Rise of the Helicopter During the Korean War
Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War’s early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict’s end.
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Tragedy at Fismette, France, 1918
Its defense by overmatched American troops exemplified the murderous futility of Western Front fighting
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10 Battles That Shaped America
America was born of war, and the following 10 battles helped forge the nation and forever change world history.
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Zero Hour on Niihau
Did the actions of a handful of people on a remote Hawaiian island lead to the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor?
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Ia Drang – The Battle That Convinced Ho Chi Minh He Could Win
Joe Galloway takes a hard look at the assessments of Ia Drang by the war’s architects in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi: McNamara, Westmoreland, Ho and Giap
New Turning Point
More than 100 readers responded to our article “What Was the Turning Point […]