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Unconditional Surrender: Questioning FDR’s Prerequisite for Peace
By Agostino Von Hassell and Sigrid Macrae At a cluster of sunny villas near Casablanca, the…
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The B-29 Superfortress in the American Air Campaign: January 1- March 3, 1945
By Robert F. Dorr At the start of 1945, the world was paying little attention to…
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December 16, 1944: Ardennes Offensive Begins, An “Abysmal Failure of Allied Intelligence”
By Carlo D'Este By October, and continuing throughout the autumn of 1944, the various Allied intelligence…
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Too Little, Too Late: Hitler and the Introduction of the Messerschmitt Me 262
By Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis By June 1941, Adolf Hitler had perhaps come to…
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Yamamoto and the Planning for Pearl Harbor
By Mark Stille Japan’s approach in 1941, which consisted of negotiations in parallel with preparations for…
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Stalingrad 1942: The Aftermath
A pair of German soldiers outside a Russian village. The weather conditions…
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The SAS and David Stirling’s Leap of Faith
By Gavin Mortimer The ‘fossilised shits’ were soon making life hard for [David] Stirling as he…
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Montgomery, Operation Husky, and the Behind the Scenes Battles
By Trevor Royle Following the victory in North Africa, the next stage of the war against…
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May 15, 1942: Formation of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
By Sylvie Murray In aition to providing service on the home front, women were called to…
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Okinawa 1945: “It’s a Bastard to Be Here”
By Sterling Mace and Nick Allen NOW! Okinawa, May 2, 1945. Suenly we’re running across a…
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WWII
Throne of Grace
by Tom Clavin
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, An Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest…
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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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