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Robert Sterling Rush’s ‘Hell in Hürtgen Forest’
By Michael D. HullIf ever the stamina, courage, and spirit of U.S. infantrymen were tested during World War II, it was at the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest in November 1944. Read more
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Agostino von Hassell and Herm Dillon’s ‘West Point’
Congress was reluctant, but President Thomas Jefferson was worried about war with France, and so in 1802 the fledgling United States of America established an academy for training youth in the disciplines of a military life and the arts of war. Read more
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Alanbrooke’s ‘War Diaries 1939-1945’
By Michael D. HullOutside the Ministry of Defense in London is a statue of one of the most influential yet overlooked leaders of World War II—an officer considered by many to have done more than any other to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Read more
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Heinz Gunther Guderian’s ‘From Normandy to the Ruhr’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloNot just another historian’s reenactment of the outcome of World War II, From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in Word War II is at once a well-crafted and deeply researched scholarly narration and a “multi-tiered memoir”—immaculately translated (a task often overlooked and underrated)—into a definitive history of the ubiquitously employed “Greyhound Division.” Read more
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Kenneth S. Davis’ ‘FDR: The War President 1940-1943’
By Michael HullNo American president has had to shoulder heavier burdens than Franklin D. Roosevelt did in the tense months after Japanese carrier planes crippled the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Read more
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Colonel William Blumenson’s ‘Heroes Never Die’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloAcclaimed historian Martin Blumenson’s new book is Heroes Never Die: Warriors and Warfare in World War II, 50 articles and essays on WW II spanning the likes of Anzio, successful but often overlooked corps commanders,George Patton, generalship, and notably, the first Ranger commander, Colonel William O. Read more
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Stanley Weintraub’s ‘Long Day’s Journey into War’
By Michael HullEveryone who was alive on that fateful Sunday morning remembers it all too clearly, and those born later are well aware of what befell the U.S. Read more
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Hampton Sides’ ‘Ghost Soldiers’
By Lt. Col. Dominic CaracciloAn unimaginable plight and an insufferable experience is a fitting way to describe the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942. Read more
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John S.D. Eisenhower’s ‘Yanks’
By Lt. Col. Dominic J. CaracciloThe Free Press continues to provide top-quality and original military history with Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I (by John S.D. Read more
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Travel the Centuries
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloPatrick K. O’Donnell, founder of The Drop Zone, an award-winning Web site that is a virtual community for veterans of World War II, makes his mark as an author in a dramatic and poignant oral history. Read more
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From B-17s To Waterloo
By Eric T. BakerB-17: Flying Fortress—The Mighty Eighth from Hasbro Interactive lets players recreate the exploits of the U.S. 8th Air Force during World War II. Read more
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Yale University Press’ ‘The Great War and the Twentieth Century’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloTo this day the First World War remains contested territory: people still care passionately about it and hotly dispute its causes, character, and its legacies,” write the editors of The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, and Mary R. Read more
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The Best Military History Books of 2000
By Major Dominic J. CaracciloThis millennium year was replete, as most years are, with terrific works of military history. Following are my choices as the year’s best. Read more
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Presidio Press’ ‘Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma’
By Major Dominic CaracciloHistorians often claim that the Allies, and most particularly the Americans, won World War II, as Nathan Prefer writes in his introduction of Vinegar Joe’s War: Stilwell’s Campaign’s for Burma, (Presidio Press, Inc., Read more
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Good reading on an officer of the Revolution, Admiral Nelson, Tankers in Iraq and more.
By Major Dominic J. CaracciloJohn Laurens’ identity, indeed his very being, was tied directly to his status as an officer during the American Revolution. Read more
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Hell in the Pacific
By Mason B. WebbAsk anyone today to name the three toughest, most important battles of World War II and chances are good that the name “Iwo Jima” will be at, or somewhere near, the top of the list. Read more
