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Walt Larimore and Mike Yorkey’s ‘At First Light’
By Christopher MiskimonPhil Larimore grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. A Boy Scout, he learned a lot of outdoor skills, including horsemanship. Read more
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Bernice Lerner’s ‘To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen’
By Christopher MiskimonWhen Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered the Bergen Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, 60,000 starving, abused prisoners greeted him; 10,000 more lay dead and decaying, unburied. Read more
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Phil Keith and Tom Clavin’s ‘To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth’
By Christopher MiskimonCap’n! She’s a-comin! She’s comin’ out!” The cry of the bosun rang out from his perch on the mizzen mast high above the deck of USS Kearsarge. Read more
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Chris Emmett’s ‘Give Way to the Right: Serving with the A.E.F.’
By Christopher MiskimonWithin seconds of moving into the attack at the Battle of Saint Mihiel in September 1918 Chris Emmett watched a man die. Read more
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Admiral James Stavridis’ ‘To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision’
By Christopher MiskimonStephen Decatur, captain of the USS Intrepid, sprang his trap under cover of darkness on the night of February 16, 1804. Read more
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John L. Plaster’s ‘SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars’
By Christopher MiskimonThe Studies and Observations Group of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam ranks among the most secretive of the Vietnam War’s special operations organizations. Read more
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Don Hollway’s ‘At The Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410’
By Christopher MiskimonRoman General Flavius Stilicho defended the waning Roman Empire against numerous invasions. His dedication to the restoration of the empire was complete, but he faced enemies from within and without. Read more
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Thomas Sheppard’s ‘Commanding Petty Despots’
By Christopher MiskimonCaptain James Lawrence climbed the rigging of the frigate USS Chesapeake in Boston Harbor on June 1, 1813, to get a better look at the unknown ship on the horizon. Read more
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Chris McNab’s ‘Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts’
By Christopher MiskimonHMS Dreadnought was such a revolutionary design its name became the byword for an entire class of warship. Read more
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David Axe’s ‘Drone War Vietnam’
By Chrisopher MiskimonUnmanned aerial vehicles are generally thought of as a modern weapon of war, a product of the digital age. Read more
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Simon Elliott’s ‘Roman Conquests: Britain’
By Christopher MiskimonThe 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’
By Christopher MiskimonToyotomi 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
By Christopher MiskimonFew 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
By Christopher MiskimonZ 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
By Christopher MiskimonClaus 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
By Christopher MiskimonA 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
By Christopher MiskimonThe 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
By Christopher MiskimonThe 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?
By Christopher MiskimonGottfried Kurt “Joe” Guennel’s family escaped Germany just after Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power in 1934. Read more
