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Eoin MacNeill: Building an Army for the Easter Rising
by Tim Pat Coogan ‘MacNeill’ was Eoin MacNeill, the ostensible leader of the Irish Volunteers, a…
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VMF N-541: Night Fighter Squadron in the Philippines
Michael E. Haskew VMF N-541 Night Fighter Squadron During the spring and summer of 1944, the…
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The Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945
by Chris McNab
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944…
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Major General William Rupertus: The Marine Rifleman’s Creed
Michael E. Haskew Major General William Rupertus was a tough old school Marine. He grudgingly refused…
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Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 24 – 26, 1944
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab In terms of tonnage of warships deployed, the…
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Unbreakable: The Navajo Code Talkers
Michael E. Haskew The need for swift communication in the heat of battle was readily apparent…
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Cecile Rol-Tanguy: Fighting for the Liberation of Paris
by Anne Sebba On 6 June 1944 Allied forces began the long-awaited invasion of northern France. Operation…
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Operation Market Garden: Arnham, September 17–21, 1944
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab On 17 September 1944, the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army…
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JSOC Missions From Masirah: Taliban Missions in Afghanistan
by Sean Naylor The vastness of the moonless night sky swallowed the turboprop drone of the…
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Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab The initial British–Canadian–American Normandy landings (Operation Neptune, the…
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Military History
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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