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Life and Death in Berlin: Discovering the City Through the Zeitzeugenbörse
by Sinclair McKay
These were children who had known only a world of violence. Yet amid…
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The Winter War
by Tom Clavin
Oops, Russia did it again. While that country’s historians might not be able…
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William Bullitt: The Champagne Ambassador
by David McKean
President-elect Franklin Roosevelt liked William Bullitt the moment they met. Bullitt was energetic, clearly…
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How Sears Saved Christmas from the Soviets
by Philip Jett It was November 30, 1955, and the Cold War was raging. The U.S.…
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How Operation Torch’s Flame Was Set Alight
by Michael E. Haskew Operation Torch, a highly complex endeavor scheduled for November 8, 1942, involved…
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After Yeltsin: A Historic Change in Russian Attitudes toward Americans
By Lisa Dickey The first time I traveled across Russia, in the fall of 1995, most…
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Guy Burgess: The Life of a Cold War Double Agent
by Andrew Lownie
When Harold Macmillan, now the Prime Minister, visited the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev…
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A Lucky Honor: On Publishing Georg Rauch’s Unlikely Warrior
by Wesley Adams What a privilege to have had the chance to acquire and edit the…
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Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Patrick Sloyan One of my goals in writing The Politics of Deception: JFK’S Secret Decisions…
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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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