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Primo Levi: An Author Q&A
by Sergio Luzzatto No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literately powerful and historically influential as…
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Unity Mitford: When Hitler Took Cocaine
by Giles Milton In the summer of 2012, a cache of extraordinary medical documents came to…
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USS Samuel B. Roberts: Bravery and Sacrifice
by John Wukovits Chapter 1: "YOU ARE NOW A MEMBER OF A GREAT FIGHTING TEAM" The…
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The Military Dogs That Save Soldiers Lives
by Isabel George I am always, and will no doubt remain, in awe of the power…
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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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The Heart Healers: Saving Men at the D-Day Beach Landings
by James S. Forrester, M.D. Chapter 2 - "What Man Meant for Evil, God Meant for…
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Hildebrand Gurlitt and the Nazis Looting of Europe’s Treasures
by Susan Ronald Hildebrand Gurlitt When I stepped into a large, Swiss bank vault in 1998…
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Prison Break! The 5 Forgotten Great Escapes of World War II
Mark Felton Fans of the 1963 movie The Great Escape know that it was based on…
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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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Tracking Jedediah Smith
by Tom Clavin
“Over the course of twelve months Jedediah Smith had become the first European…
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End of an Era
by Alexander Larman
In the introduction to the third and final installment in my Windsors trilogy,…
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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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