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The magnitude and geographical scale of the battles and campaigns on the Eastern Front during World War II and the number of soldiers involved in these operations are almost beyond the understanding of Americans. Read more
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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 German U-boat U-505 was, according to author James E. Read more
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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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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 “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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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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Considered the world’s strongest fortress,” writes military and aviation historian C.G. Read more
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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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As a boy growing up in New York City in the 1950s, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) idolized his father’s co-worker, Leonard “Smitty” Smith, and considered him a surrogate father. Read more
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In 1898, with Indian campaigns in the past, the 28,000-man U.S. Read more
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It is a gamble at best, and an invitation to disaster at worst,” writes Ed Ruggero of the first large scale U.S. Read more
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War stripped a man of his protective illusions and left only a terrible wisdom, which he had neither wanted nor consciously sought,” reflected Hugh S. Read more
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The subtitle for this book, How Ordinary Soldiers Defeated Hitler, pretty well sums up the authors’ objectives in describing the Normandy Campaign through the eyes of the men who did the actual fighting. Read more
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On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed in Normandy, commencing the offensive that liberated Western Europe and contributed to the final Allied victory in Europe. Read more
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In 1995 the Department of Defense conducted a final investigation of the December 7, 1941, attack on U.S. Read more
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By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was an average Midwestern American city in 1940. Read more
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Once in a great while a truly historical figure takes the time to write a memorable account of that part of his life that put him in the history books. Read more
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Tensions were high among expectant crowds gathering on the evening of August 14, 1945, in New York City’s Times Square, where news bulletins had streaked across the electronic “zipper” sign high on the Times Tower since 1928. Read more
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On June 8, 1967, during the height of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab adversaries, the USS Liberty was attacked apparently without warning while in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean. Read more
