To Bail Out or Burn Up?
Posted on December 16, 2021 4:00 pm Leave your thoughtsby Tom Clavin
Read on for an excerpt that discusses Joe Moser’s fight for survival in Tom Clavin’s Lightning Down!… Read the article
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The Long Gray Line: All-New Audio!
Posted on May 10, 2021 3:36 pm Leave your thoughtsby The History Reader
In the first unabridged audio version of The Long Gray Line, author Rick Atkinson has recorded a new foreword, and has recorded an additional bonus conversation with Ty Seidule, former head of the history department at … Read the article
How a Small Alaskan Refueling Stop Became Home to the US Army’s Elite Missile Defenders
Posted on July 7, 2020 5:20 pm Leave your thoughtsby Daniel Wasserbly
With unprecedented access to the highly classified strategic nerve centers of U.S. Northern Command in Cheyenne Mountain, years of research, and dozens of exclusive interviews with normally inaccessible missile crews, author Daniel Wasserbly reveals the incredible true … Read the article
Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 24 – 26, 1944
Posted on October 26, 2016 2:51 pm Leave your thoughtsEditor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab
In terms of tonnage of warships deployed, the battle of Leyte Gulf is the largest naval battle ever fought. Incredibly engaging 282 vessels as well as 180,000 sailors and pilots. The Imperial … Read the article
The Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers: This Divided Island
Posted on December 29, 2015 11:05 am Leave your thoughtsby Samantha Subramanian
In conversations about politics in Sri Lanka, and therefore in conversations about the war and the peace, rumor forms the chief currency. Everybody appears to have their own particular runnels of information, flowing from indistinct sources. … Read the article
Who Really was America’s First Flying Ace: The Case for Eddie Rickenbacker
Posted on May 15, 2015 7:45 pm Leave your thoughtsby John F. Ross
In Spring of 1918, during World War I, two American pilots entered a fierce competition to become the first ace in American service by shooting down five confirmed enemy airships. They both couldn’t have been cut … Read the article
Operation Chowhound: As Historically Important as D-Day
Posted on February 20, 2015 10:11 pm Leave your thoughtsby Stephen Dando-Collins
Seventy years ago, in February, 1945, 3.5 million Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland, in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, were facing starvation after the Nazis had cut food and power, creating Holland’s ‘Hunger Winter’ … Read the article
In Praise of Fear: from an American Warrior
Posted on November 11, 2014 8:30 am 1 Commentby Gary O’Neal
“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” Native American Proverb
I think it was Hamlet who said, “Fear makes cowards of us all.” Now, I don’t … Read the article
Veterans Day: Remembering Those Who Served
Posted on November 10, 2014 4:47 pm 1 Commentby The History Reader
Veterans Day is the day we honor and commemorate our brave service men and women who are fighting and have fought for America’s freedom and security since the early beginnings of our nation. To understand and … Read the article
What Happens Before the First Shots Are Fired?
Posted on September 12, 2014 4:39 pm Leave your thoughtsby General Tony Zinni
Throughout our history we have committed our military to action hundreds of times. The reasons have been many and varied. After each of these commitments our military dutifully examines all our past interventions and wars attempting … Read the article