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Recalling the devastation of Dresden
By Mason B. WebbIt is highly unusual in the publishing world for two books to come out in the same year on the same topic with the same title (and even the same photo on their covers). Read more
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The Battle for Khartoum
By Al HemingwayHe was known as Mohammed Ahmed and he was born in 1844 at Dirar, a small island near the Third Cataract of the Nile River, in the Sudanese village of Dongala. Read more
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Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
By Al HemingwayHero or scapegoat? Even with the passage of nearly 144 years since the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania, controversy still shadows the role—or lack of role—played by one of General Robert E. Read more
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Submarine warfare is an excellent genre for gaming.
By Eric T. BakerIt is funny how genres come and go. A book becomes a best seller and suddenly there are a plethora of submarine games (and movies). Read more
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History is often stranger than fiction
By Mason B. Webb
Just when one thinks that there could not be another “untold” story about World War II, along comes a writer like Dan Kurzman with a new book about a previously untold story: the Nazis’ plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII. Read more
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New Tarawa book captures horror and heroism of bloody Pacific battle.
By Mason B. WebbOn all sides, shells detonated in bloody geysers, bullets churned the water, which looked as if it were agitated by a storm, and wounded Marines, some hideously disfigured and dying, shouted, even begged, for help.” Read more
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Life of a Colossus
By Al HemingwayTo say that Caius Julius Caesar was one of the most influential men in world history is still something of an understatement. Read more
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The Mystery of the Bulge’s Lost Soldiers
By Mason B. WebbHe dug down to a half-rotted overshoe and tugged it free from the black soil at the bottom of the old foxhole. Read more
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Three fine books document the horror and heroism of the fight for Iwo Jima.
By Mason B. WebbIwo Jima was one of the toughest battles of World War II, and three new books provide perhaps the definitive word on that epic, month-long struggle in February and March 1945. Read more
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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
