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D-Day Landings

D-Day: American Rangers Who Terrified the Germans

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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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D-Day: When the Tides Turned On Omaha Beach

by Giles Milton

Who were Charles Canham and Norman Cota? And why were they sent to…
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D-Day: The Tale of Two Brothers

Who were Charles and Elliot Dalton? 5753
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D-Day: The Utah Beach Landings

by Giles Milton

Who was Leonard Schroeder? And how did he write himself into the history…
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D-Day and the Battle for Merville

by Giles Milton

Who was Terence Otway? And why was he chosen to capture one of…
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One of the Most Dangerous Missions of D-Day

by Giles Milton

Who was James Eads? And why did he find himself in such danger…
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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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The Heart Healers: Saving Men at the D-Day Beach Landings

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by James S. Forrester, M.D. Chapter 2 - "What Man Meant for Evil, God Meant for…
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D-Day Landings

What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?

by Tore C. Olsson

In his new book Red Dead's History, Tore Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that…
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Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”

by Heath Hardage Lee

As spring came to Washington in 1972, there was little rest for…
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The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About

by Tore C. Olsson

Imagine a bookcase large enough to contain all the works ever written…
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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives

by Kathleen Sheppard

Mary Charlton Jonas (1874-1950) returned to her work at the Egypt Exploration Society’s…
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Butch Gets Busted

by Tom Clavin

This month is the 130th anniversary of when Butch Cassidy was sent to prison in Wyoming for…
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Adventure, Shipwrecks, and the History of the World

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David Gibbins's day job is anything but normal. Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his…
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John Colter: The First Mountain Man?

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by Tom Clavin

One of the joys of researching and writing (with Bob Drury) Throne of…
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Army Rangers on D-Day

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by Tom Clavin

As many of you are aware, this week marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day,…
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