Book Reviews
Japan’s Vast War
By Christopher MiskimonOn April 12, 1942, thunder sounded across the waters surrounding the island of Corregidor. It was not a natural storm, however, but a conflagration of steel. Read more
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USS Lexington’s Legacy of Service
By Christopher MiskimonLieutenant Commander Kakuishi Takahashi looked down on his targets from 14,000 feet. They were long, narrow forms with flat decks and large funnel stacks, the American aircraft carriers USS Lexington and Yorktown. Read more
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The Siege of Przemysl
By Christopher MiskimonA horrible siege on the Eastern Front occurred at the outset of 1915. The city of Przemysl in southeastern Poland belonged to Austria Hungary. Read more
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Britain Invades the Chesapeake
By Christopher MiskimonAs the morning sun dawned over the village of Havre-de-Grace on May 3, 1813, a few sleepy militiamen stood watch over the Susquehanna River, watching for marauding British ships. Read more
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General Grant at Appomattox Court House
By Christopher MiskimonThe battle of sailor’s creek was a debacle for the confederacy and the death knell of the Army of Northern Virginia. Read more
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Wartime Industrial Colossus
By Christopher MiskimonAs spring turned to summer in 1941, America’s thoughts turned unwillingly toward war. While the nation was still reluctant to enter World War II, it now realized it needed to prepare its military, which had languished in the funding-starved 1930s. Read more
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The King’s German Legion at Waterlooo
By Christopher MiskimonThe Battle of Waterloo was A nightmare from hell. Musket balls, shot, and shell flew back and forth, tearing apart men and horses and leaving their broken bodies to litter what had been a pristine field just days before. Read more
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Collision of Empires
By Christopher MiskimonWorld War I was only days old when German General of the Infantry Hermann von François went forward to view his soldiers engaged in combat south of Stalluponen in East Prussia. Read more
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The Class the Stars Fell
By Christopher MiskimonJune 12, 1915, was a day of enormous portent for the United States of America, though at the time it passed without great remark. Read more
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Military Book Reviews: WWII Propaganda to Christmas in the Korean War
By Christopher MiskimonWith World War I raging across the muddy battlefields of Europe, the Allies were pressed for personnel to man their ever-increasing air forces. Read more
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Washington’s Debut at The Battle of the Monongahela
By Christopher MiskimonIn April 1754 the French sent an impressive host down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. Six hundred men with artillery and supplies set out in canoes and bateaux. Read more
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Campaign on Land & Sea and in the Air
By Christopher MiskimonAfter the U.S. victory at Midway in June 1942, the focus of the War in the Pacific moved south. Read more
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Military Book Reviews: December 2014
By Christopher MiskimonOne morning in early January 1882, Japan took its first unknowing step toward eventual world war. On that day Mutsuhito, the emperor of Japan, handed a document known as the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors to Army Minister, Oyama Iwao. Read more
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Military Book Reviews for November 2014
by Christopher MiskimonWithin a few weeks of the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” at Lexington and Concord, the fledgling United States, its army mostly underequipped militia, set out to defeat the British Army. Read more
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MRAP Ambush
By Christopher MiskimonOn Thanksgiving Day 2009, a convoy of three mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles left the south gate of Camp Ramadi, Iraq, and began the roughly three-mile journey to the Provincial Government Building. Read more
