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The True Story of Marine Special Operations Team 8222
WCAG Headingby Michael Golembesky The unforgiving Afghan winter has settled upon the twenty-two men of Marine…
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Colonel Peter Ortiz and the Covert Marines
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew Among the most compelling and least known U.S. Marine exploits of World…
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VMF N-541: Night Fighter Squadron in the Philippines
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew WCAG HeadingVMF N-541 Night Fighter Squadron During the spring and summer of…
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Major General William Rupertus: The Marine Rifleman’s Creed
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew Major General William Rupertus was a tough old school Marine. He grudgingly…
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Marine Corps Desegregation: WWII Begins to Break Barriers
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew Although President Harry S. Truman did not sign the legislation that officially ratified Marine…
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Little Dynamite: The 75mm Pack Howitzer
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew Nicknamed “Little Dynamite”, the 75mm pack howitzer proved its worth with the…
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The Higgins Boat: America’s First Amphibious Warfare Strategy
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew From the inception of amphibious warfare strategy and tactics, the Marine Corps…
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Marine Corps Base Quantico: Starting Marine Amphibious Warfare
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew WCAG HeadingMarine Corps Base Quantico Perhaps the best known permanent facility operated…
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Major Pappy Boyington: Commander of the Black Sheep Squadron
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew One of the legendary fighting units to emerge from the Solomon Islands…
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Marine Raiders: Evans Carlson’s Noble Experiment
WCAG HeadingMichael E. Haskew The 1st and 2nd Raider Battalions, U.S. Marine Corps, which fought so…
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Featured Excerpt: The Sea Captain’s Wife
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
In The Sea Captain's Wife, New York Times bestselling author Tilar J.…
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The Curious Case of Nuremberg’s Hangman
by Tim Queeney
In his book Rope, author Tim Queeney takes readers on a unique and…
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Featured Excerpt: Gemini
by Jeffrey Kluger
Named by Time Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of fall…
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Featured Excerpt: Progress
by Samuel Miller McDonald
In Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide
This December, we're taking a look back at the many fascinating history books that published this…
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Featured Excerpt: Family of Spies
It began with a mysterious letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World…
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Post-Holocene Progress
by Samuel Miller McDonald
Samuel Miller McDonald's book, Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now…
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The Last Launch of the Gemini Program
by Jeffrey Kluger
On November 11, 1966, NASA launched Gemini 12, the last manned spaceflight in…
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