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Book Review: The Deserters / A Hidden History of World War II
Many of the books about World War II take the Tom Brokaw approach and salute the courage of “the Greatest Generation.” But what of the men who apparently lacked the courage to stand in battle, those who deserted?
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Was Lyndon Johnson aware of Soviet plans to invade Czechoslovakia?
Dear Mr. History, There is one thing in history that particularly interests me. Was […]
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Interview: Col. David J. Clark / Korean War 60th Anniversary
July 27, 2013, marks the 60th anniversary of the negotiated armistice that ended hostilities […]
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War List: First in Their Class at West Point
MHQ contributing editor Thomas Fleming picks West Point’s most notable graduating classes.
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Project to clear landmines in Vietnam
TED Challenge: Defuse, Heal & Grow campaign is raising money to remove old landmines and other unexploded ordinance from Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.
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Interview: Everett Alvarez / A Vietnam POW for the Duration
A few hours after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, Navy A4 pilot Everett Alvarez was shot down on a bombing mission near Hanoi, the first U.S. aviator taken captive during the Vietnam War.
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Fighting Words: From the World Wars to Korea
Many words and phrases used in the Korean War were first used in the World Wars
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How Poetry Sustained a Vietnam POW
The genesis of Major General John Borling’s collection ‘Taps on the Walls: Poems From the Hanoi Hilton’
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Book Review: Embers of War, by Frederik Logevall
Frederik Logevall examines the critical period of regional and world tensions that flared up into America’s Vietnam War.