Long before he published Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace rose from a career as an obscure small-town Indiana lawyer to take a prominent role in the Civil War.
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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert Citino By Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper Harvard University Press, Cambridge, […]
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America’s Civil War: Loudoun Rangers
The Quaker-dominated Loudoun Rangers openly defied Virginia tradition to serve the Union.
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The Devil: Japan’s Invincible Ace of Aces
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was gaunt and sickly looking, but in the cockpit of his Zero fighter he became ‘the Devil.’
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Air Force Colonel Jacksel ‘Jack’ Broughton & Air Force General John D. ‘Jack’ Lavelle: Testing the Rules of Engagement During the Vietnam War
Everyone in Vietnam knew that the restrictions imposed by the rules of engagement were insane, but only two Air Force officers fell on their swords in protest.
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Americal Division’s Bravo Battery’s Brave Defense of LZ Snoopy During the Vietnam War
Communist sappers thought LZ Snoopy would be an easy target, but the Americal Division’s Bravo Battery proved them wrong.
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The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert K. Krick By Stephen Chicoine McFarland & Company, www.mcfarlandpub.com, Jefferson, N.C. […]
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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Book Review)
Reviewed by Eric J. Mink By Peter S. Carmichael University of North Carolina Press, […]
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Nine Years’ War: Battle of the Yellow Ford
Thomas Lord Burgh had intended it to be ‘an eyesore in the heart of Tyrone’s country,’ but to Burgh’s successor, Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde, ‘the scurvey fort at Blackwater’ was a liability that would lead to England’s worst defeat on Irish soil.
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Battle of Hurtgen Forest
The bloodbath in the Hurtgen Forest was a battle that could have been avoided.