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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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Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a…
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Celebrating Black History Month 2015
by The History Reader Black History Month is an annual event for celebrating the central role…
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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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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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Nick Irving: An Army Ranger NEVER Gives Up
by Nick Irving Immediately after graduating high school, I was sent to Ft. Benning to attend…
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Hanukkah and Christmas: A History of Consequences
by Joel M. Hoffman History is in large part the story of consequences—both intended and unintended—as…
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The Evolution of the Modern American Sniper
by Chris Martin The popularized notion of the lone sniper, out in the brush for days…
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War Dogs
by Rebecca Frankel The canon of literature on dogs is vast and deep. I’d be willing…
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In Praise of Fear: from an American Warrior
by Gary O'Neal “Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen…
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Military History
Tracking Jedediah Smith
by Tom Clavin
“Over the course of twelve months Jedediah Smith had become the first European…
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End of an Era
by Alexander Larman
In the introduction to the third and final installment in my Windsors trilogy,…
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Throne of Grace
by Tom Clavin
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, An Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest…
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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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