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Heroism and Horror in the First World War
By Al HemingwayJust before 7:30 on the morning of July 1, 1916, an ear-shattering explosion shook the earth near the village of Beaumont-Hamel in France. Read more
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Benedict Arnold’s Navy
By Al HemingwayWhenever the name of Benedict Arnold is mentioned, people immediately think in terms of the traitorous act he attempted to perpetrate against the fledging United States of America in 1780 by surrendering West Point, New York, to the British. Read more
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The Battle of the Atlantic
By Mason B. WebbBetween 1939 and 1945, over 72,000 Allied sailors, Navy airmen, and merchant seamen lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to deliver the food, weapons, and other supplies desperately needed by Britain and the Soviet Union in their titanic struggle against Nazi Germany. Read more
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
By Al HemingwayOn April15, 2004 in the Sunni triangle of Al Anbar Province in Iraq, a known haven for terrorists, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (code-named Warlord) were conducting search and clear operations. Read more
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The bitter battle for Okinawa was the final land campaign of World War II in the Pacific.
By Mason B. WebbFor 82 days in the spring of 1945, a ferocious battle raged on a Pacific island called Okinawa—an island considered crucial for the planned invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Read more
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Trial of a “Desk Murderer”
By Mason B. WebbAs the man in charge of the Third Reich’s logistical apparatus of mass deportation and extermination of two million European Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps, Adolf Eichmann was the acknowledged center of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Read more
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Did the South lose the Civil War because of Northern superiority or its own mismanagement?
By Al HemingwayIt has long been suggested that due to the union’s industrial might and its larger population, the South lost the American Civil War. Read more
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Cutting through the layers of myth and legend surrounding Custer’s battle at the Little Bighorn.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876, resulted in Lt. Read more
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Revelations from Japanese records shed new light on the epic Battle of Midway.
By Mason B. WebbLately, many of the scores of books published on the topic of World War II purport to be the “untold story” of such-and-such battle, campaign, or event; very few of them are actually untold stories, and most are merely the rehashing of the familiar. Read more
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The Hidden History of Valley Forge
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The freezing winter of 1777-1778, which General George Washington’s Continental Army spent on the verge of starvation and collapse at Valley Forge, was a turning point of the American Revolution. Read more
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Growing Up in the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
By Mason B. WebbFor anyone who has ever wondered why the men who came home from the war refused to talk with their families about their experiences, this book may hold the clue. Read more
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Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The United States has been called a country made by war. Read more
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The First Marines
by Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)To this day, the U.S. Marine Corps proudly commemorates in its service hymn the Marines’ first overseas operation on “the shores of Tripoli.” Read more
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The submarine U-505 made an epic journey from Germany to Chicago.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The German U-boat U-505 was, according to author James E. Read more
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The Icon of German Militarism
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)German Army Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg is regarded as a towering hero of World War I, the victor of the Battles of Tannenberg (1914) and the Masurian Lakes (1914 and 1915), as well as army chief of staff and master strategist. Read more
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Patton and Rommel were masters of battlefield mobility and the operational art of war.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)American General George S. Patton, Jr., and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel both demonstrated the masterful employment of armored forces in many World War II military campaigns. Read more
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The Truth Behind The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The “Charge of the Light Brigade,” a British cavalry action during the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, 1854-1856, has been romanticized and immortalized, primarily through a ballad of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Read more
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Old Fuss and Feathers
The military career of General Winfield Scott—called “Old Fuss and Feathers” because of his keen attention to military discipline and appearance—spanned much of the first half of the 19th century, from before the War of 1812 to the Civil War. Read more
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Washington’s bold crossing of the Delaware River breathed new life into the faltering American Revolution.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)The iconic portrait of General George Washington crossing the Delaware River in 1776 by Emanuel Leutze is familiar to many Americans. Read more
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The U.S. Army rose from being a colonial campaigner, to a formidable global power.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)In 1898, with Indian campaigns in the past, the 28,000-man U.S. Read more
