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The League of Wives: Women Who Fought to Bring Vietnam POWs Home
by Heath Hardage Lee
On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six…
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Operation Chaos: An Untold Cold War Story
by Matthew Sweet Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war…
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A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
by Philip Caputo
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series…
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The Vietnam War’s Effect on Nixon’s 1968 Win
by James Wright
by James E. Wright By the fall of 1968, a majority of Americans agreed that Vietnam was…
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The Battle of Khe Sanh, January 21 – April 8, 1968
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab Khe Sanh combat base, built on a hilltop…
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The Battle of Hue, January 30 – March 3, 1969
Editor: Michael Spilling and Consultant Editor: Chris McNab As part of the Tet Offensive of 1968,…
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Long Binh Jail: US Military Prisons in the Vietnam War
by Hannah Kohler Over the course of the Vietnam War, the US Army stockade at Long…
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FSB Illingworth Attack: Courage Against Staggering Odds
by Philip Keith Chapter 1: THE TRAP IS BAITED AT FSB ILLINGWORTH It was quiet, but…
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Honoring America’s POW/MIA Wives
by Alvin Townley Jane Denton knew why the dark sedan had arrived that day in July…
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Reasons for the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Patrick Sloyan One of my goals in writing The Politics of Deception: JFK’S Secret Decisions…
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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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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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