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Stalin’s Wartime Paranoia

It has long been common knowledge to most historians and followers of World War II history in the European Theater, that the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. Read more

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Revisiting the Tet Offensive

Many who remember the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam still believe that the U.S. military suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army. Read more

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Skeletons Disguised as Humans

Just months after General Douglas MacArthur made his way from Philippines via PT-boat to reach Australia, Allied forces, mostly composed of Australian and native troops, took the offensive against the enemy to New Guinea. Read more

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The Rocky Relationship Between Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan

No two men were more different than Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, who came from a hardscrabble frontier background, and Maj. Read more

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Top German Strategist

When British military historian and strategist B.H. Liddell Hart interviewed high-ranking German Army officers after the World War II had ended, almost to the man they agreed that one individual stood head and shoulders above everyone else—Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein. Read more

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The Last Stand Myth

The Alamo in San Antonio has long been referred to as the “Cradle of Liberty” for modern-day Texas. Read more

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Fooling the Germans

After the successful invasion of North Africa in November 1942, Allied planners immediately set to work developing a strategy to deliver a new offensive blow against Nazi Germany. Read more

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Harry Truman’s Military Carrer

When people mention President Harry S. Truman, they instantly think of him as the president who made the monumental decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Read more

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Allied Air Retribution

When does war end and slaughter begin?

That is the question that drives this compelling reexamination of the Allied aerial bombing campaign against Germany during World War II. Read more

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The Desert Fox in North Africa

By Al Hemingway

Much has been written about the battlefield exploits of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His exemplary leadership skills, especially during the North Africa campaign, received unending praise from Adolf Hitler. Read more

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Hero of the Marine Corps

No one looks like a hero. But when certain men are placed in impossible situations, they rise to the occasion and perform spectacular deeds that defy imagination. Read more

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The Assault and Capture of Fallujah

On the morning of March 31, 2004, in the city of Fallujah, Iraq, the unmistakable sound of automatic weapons fire could be heard. Read more

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Tragedy in Beirut

On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, a large yellow Mercedes-Benz truck was seen approaching the Beirut International Airport. Read more

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Supreme Force, Supreme Defeat

By the late 1930s, no army in the world was as powerful, well organized, or well-equipped as the German Army. Read more

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The Story of America’s Most Reviled President

When visitors gaze upon the immense marble statute of a seated Abraham Lincoln looking out upon the reflecting pool at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Read more

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Life After Death

Author Richard Bessel’s latest book is, without doubt, a monumental work that goes in depth to chart Germany’s progress from a flattened, vilified foe to a bulwark in Europe’s efforts to resist Communist expansion and takeover. Read more

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Rescuing Nazi Plunder

Besides being a destroyer of lives and cities, war also destroys precious works of art and the ancient monuments of civilization. Read more

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Israel’s Assault on the USS Liberty

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a cargo ship built at the end of World War II and converted to an electronic surveillance vessel in 1964, was patrolling 14 miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Read more

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With Warts and All

For most people, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands today as the towering epitome of the ideal wartime leader: tough-talking, unflappable, judicious. Read more

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Winston Groom’s Vicksburg 1863

By mid-1862, despite the humiliating Union defeats in the East, the Civil War in the western theater was gaining momentum. Read more