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February 24, 1917: British Release Decode of Zimmerman Telegram
By Callie Oettinger From OurDocuments.Gov: In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German…
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Kurt Vonnegut and the Dresden Bombings
By Charles J. Shields The winter weather in Dresden lifted abruptly on Shrove Tuesday, February 13,…
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Rebirth of the SAS: The Malayan “Emergency”
By Alastair MacKenzie From 1948 to 1960, the British government was involved in a counter-insurgency campaign…
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Why We Served
By Phil Keith “Hell, why not? If I don’t sign up, some other poor bastard will…
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A Brief History of the Real Red Tails
By Clint Van Winkle In an era when African-Americans were treated like sub-humans, a group of…
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Manstein and Sichelschnitt
By Major Mungo Melvin The man is not to my liking, but he knows something about…
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December 1776: Victory or Death
By Gerald M. Carbone General John Sullivan took command of Lee’s Troops outside Morristown, and within…
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December 25-26, 1914: War and Peace— and War
By Sir Martin Gilbert For nearly five months the war had been fought with mounting severity.…
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War Horse
By Stephen Frater For thousands of years, horses defined military land power, mobility, logistics and tactics. Yet,…
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Patton: The Warrior, The Myth and the Legacy
By Alan Axelrod On September 28, 1945, Eisenhower summoned Patton to his headquarters in the IG…
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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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