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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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Ivory Vikings: Go Berserk in 5 Easy Lessons
by Nancy Marie Brown 1. Take off your shirt. “Berserk” comes from an Old Norse word…
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Joe Kennedy Jr.: Fallen Hero of Operation Aphrodite
By Alan Axelrod Winston Churchill titled a chapter of his monumental history of World War II…
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The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII
by John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where…
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First Over There: America’s First Battle of World War One
by Matthew Davenport In the early morning sunshine of the fourth spring of World War One,…
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Infamy by Richard Reeves: A Q&A With The Author
The History Reader - Infamy by Richard Reeves Infamy is the latest work by bestselling author…
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Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall, and the Outsiders of Montparnasse
by Stanley Meisler The mass migrations of European peoples to this country in the late 19th…
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Honoring America’s POW/MIA Wives
by Alvin Townley Jane Denton knew why the dark sedan had arrived that day in July…
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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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Operation Chowhound: As Historically Important as D-Day
by Stephen Dando-Collins Seventy years ago, in February, 1945, 3.5 million Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland,…
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Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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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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