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D-Day: American Rangers Who Terrified the Germans
by Giles Milton
Who were William Petty’s Bastards? And why were the Germans so afraid of them? Well—with very…
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D-Day: Bagpipes and Snipers
by Giles Milton
Who was Shimi Lovat? And how did a flamboyant Scottish aristocrat come to…
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D-Day: The German Opposition
by Giles Milton
Who was Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski? And why was he so important to the…
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The Mission You’ve Never Heard Of: The Hours Before D-Day
by Giles Milton
Who was Denis Edwards? And why was he dropped behind enemy lines some…
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Eisenhower and the Road to D-Day
by Michael E. Haskew The marshaling and training of the Allied forces that were to strike…
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Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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