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The story of the Luftwaffe’s Reichsverteidigung (Defence of the Reich) is the story of the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF)—the Mighty Eighth based in England and the 15th Air Force, which included the Tuskegee Airmen, based in Tunisia and Italy. Read more
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Seventy-five years after that deadly winter in Korea in 1950, a former Washington Post military correspondent and historian sets out to uncover what really happened at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir and the fate of the U.S. Read more
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Author Mark Stille bemoans the “continuing flood of Pearl Harbor books [that] focus on the failure to avoid conflict in the months before the attack or on the deeply flawed concept that ‘Washington’ conspired to let the Japanese take the first shots of the war while not informing the commanders at Pearl Harbor what was coming.” Read more
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A highly readable and engaging narrative of a University of Virginia English major who quit his teaching job in Brooklyn and found himself drafted into the Army in 1969. Read more
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A ground-level view of island warfare by a U.S. Marine Corps rifleman who spent 27 months in the Pacific. Read more
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Hart, the oral historian for the Imperial War Museum in London, constructs a highly engaging narrative of the British Egyptian and Sudanese campaigns (Egypt in 1882, Sudan in 1883-85 and 1896-98) by alternating his own prose with first-hand accounts from soldiers and journalists who were there in the desert. Read more
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Though now more nuanced, for many years historians have written about the “spirit” that surrounded the buildup to the Great War. Read more
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Fighting Fifteen: The Navy’s Top Ace and the Deadliest Hellcat Squadron of the Pacific War (Stephen L. Moore, Dutton Caliber (PenguinRandomHouse), New York, NY, 432 pp., Read more
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Many of the men in the new VF-15 Fighter Squadron had three things in common: a love of flying and the desperate desire to fly fighters in combat. Read more
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Launched on the night of July 9-10, 1943, the amphibious assault of Operation Husky was the largest the world had ever seen—more than 3,200 vessels and half a million Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen attacked the island of Sicily, Adolf Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.” Read more
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By Kevin Seabrooke
The Battle of Anzio (January 22-May 25, 1944) was aimed at bypassing the German’s daunting Gustav Line in an effort to capture Rome. Read more
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During the Japanese invasion of the islands in December 1941, 2nd Lt. Edwin Ramsey commanded the U.S. Army’s 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) in rearguard action that allowed Allied forces to fall back to the Bataan Peninsula. Read more
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By Kevin Seabrooke
Author Mark Stille bemoans the “continuing flood of Pearl Harbor books [that] focus on the failure to avoid conflict in the months before the attack or on the deeply flawed concept that ‘Washington’ conspired to let the Japanese take the first shots of the war while not informing the commanders at Pearl Harbor what was coming.” Read more
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A screenwriter’s letter asking what her father, 70-year-old Eberhard Kuehn, remembered about his own father’s life as a spy in WWII turned journalist Christine Kuehn’s world upside down. Read more
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Beginning with the Battle of Britain and going forward, it was clear that military aviation would become a critical component of modern warfare. Read more
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Led by the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB) (Jewish Combat Organization), the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April/May 1943 against the German SS remains one of the most famous struggles in the annals of the Holocaust. Read more
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Flying classified missions under the cover of darkness to support underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Europe is not the kind of volunteer work that garners much contemporary press. Read more
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President Abraham Lincoln appointed John C. Frémont as a major general on May 15, 1861, and gave him command of the U.S. Read more
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Launched on the night of July 9-10, 1943, the amphibious assault of Operation Husky was the largest the world had ever seen—more than 3,200 vessels and half a million Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen attacked the island of Sicily, Adolf Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.” Read more
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In August 1914, Germany implemented its Schlieffen Plan with 1.7 million soldiers sweeping through Belgium and northern France to envelop and crush the French and British armies. Read more
