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World War II: The Fear and the Freedom

by Keith Lowe

The Second World War was not just another crisis—it directly affected more people…

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Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon

by Giles Milton Cecil Vandepeer Clarke viewed his caravan with the sort of affection that most…

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Major Pappy Boyington: Commander of the Black Sheep Squadron

Michael E. Haskew One of the legendary fighting units to emerge from the Solomon Islands Campaign,…

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Churchill and His Money: No More Champagne

by David Lough

An Introduction: Churchill and his Money This book owes its genesis to a…

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Joe Kennedy Jr.: Fallen Hero of Operation Aphrodite

By Alan Axelrod Winston Churchill titled a chapter of his monumental history of World War II…

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The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII

by John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where…

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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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Featured Excerpt: President Carter

by Stuart E. Eizenstat

Grounding the B-1 Bomber Exclusive picture of President…

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Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday

by Tom Clavin

Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure…

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The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter

by Jack Kelly

Florence Kelley’s father, William, taught his daughter to read in 1866 using books…

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Contrasts in A Place to Hide

by Ronald H. Balson

A Place to Hide is my ninth novel and the seventh set…

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The Notorious Kid Curry

by Tom Clavin

Kid Curry, born as Harvey Logan. Public domain via…

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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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second world war

World War II: The Fear and the Freedom

Cecil Vandepeer Clarke: Churchill’s Secret Weapon

Major Pappy Boyington: Commander of the Black Sheep Squadron

Churchill and His Money: No More Champagne

Joe Kennedy Jr.: Fallen Hero of Operation Aphrodite

The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII

A Lucky Honor: On Publishing Georg Rauch’s Unlikely Warrior

second world war

Featured Excerpt: President Carter

by Stuart E. Eizenstat

Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday

by Tom Clavin

The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter

by Jack Kelly

Contrasts in A Place to Hide

by Ronald H. Balson

The Notorious Kid Curry

by Tom Clavin

What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?

by Tore C. Olsson

Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”

by Heath Hardage Lee

The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About

by Tore C. Olsson

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