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Simon Elliott’s ‘Roman Conquests: Britain’

The Romans found Britain to be a terrifying land. They had little information about its people and they found it difficult to invade. Read more

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Chris Glenn’s ‘The Battle of Sekigahara’

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a samurai and feudal lord, unified Japan and ushered in a period of peace for the war-torn nation. Read more

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Hitler’s Winter of ‘44

Few festivities occurred on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ardennes Forest. Thousands of soldiers struggled to attack or defend positions, or to simply survive. Read more

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World War II Snipers: The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories

By Christopher Miskimon

Private Harlan J. Hinkle enlisted in the United States Marine Corps the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Read more

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Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force

Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force (Gavin Mortimer, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2022, 240 pp., Read more

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Marching From Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union 1944

Claus Neuber served as an artillery officer in the German Army on the Eastern Front. In June 1944, the Soviets launched Operation Bagration, a massive offensive which crushed German Army Group Center. Read more

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Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs from the Second World War

A trio of Soviet T-26 light tanks sit isolated in a field, green grass reaching the tops of their tracks. Read more

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The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion: Fighting on Both Fronts

The men of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion fought two opponents during World War II. From the moment they began their training in 1942, the African American soldiers assigned to the unit faced the prejudice endemic in American society of the time, and by extension the United States Army. Read more

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From the Ardennes to Austria

The paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute InfantryRegiment (3/506), 101st Airborne Division fought long and hard during Operation Market-Garden, the Allied assault through Holland aimed at piercing into northern Germany and ending the war. Read more

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Sprechen sie Deutsch?

Gottfried Kurt “Joe” Guennel’s family escaped Germany just after Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power in 1934. Read more

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Ambushed in Suoi Cat

The troopers of the 1st Squadron 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, in an armored column in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, on December 2, 1966, waited at their base camp for an order to move out on an escort mission. Read more

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America’s Few

As Jim Swett guided his Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter to a landing at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, he looked forward to getting some rest. Read more

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Resurgent U.S. Navy

The United States Navy entered World War II well before Pearl Harbor and long before the rest of the nation. Read more

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Belated Medals of Honor Righted Injustices

The squat, gray brick Castle Aghinolfi sat on high ground over-looking a coastal road on Italy’s west coast. Read more

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Tanks continued to play a central role in regional conflicts that sprang up around the globe in the post-Vietnam era.

The Six-Day War began on June 5, 1967, with a lightning assault by Israeli armored units and aircraft. Read more

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A Flawed and Brilliant WWII Combat Leader

General George S. Patton, Jr., entered his first World War II battlefield on the morning of November 8, 1942. Read more

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Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne fought a grueling battle against the North Vietnamese for four weeks in 1969 at Tam Ky.

On May 21, 1969, while much of the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry, is engaging the enemy, Lieutenant Ed Sherwood’s Third Platoon, Delta Company, is guarding rucksacks. Read more

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Michael Napier’s Korean Air War

A B-29 crew’s worst nightmare was a MiG-15 fighter boring in on them with its 23mm cannon blazing. Read more

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Savage Combat in a Faraway Jungle

In February 1944, the Japanese attacked the Commonwealth’s 7th Indian Division near Sinzweya, Burma. The division divided its troops into several defensive “boxes” to blunt the enemy attack. Read more

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U.S. Pilots At War

Lieutenant Robert Samuel Johnson looked around for some friendly planes to fly with to get back to England. Read more