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In August 1914, Germany implemented its Schlieffen Plan with 1.7 million soldiers sweeping through Belgium and northern France to envelop and crush the French and British armies. Read more
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Operation Shingle, better known as the Battle of Anzio (January 22-May 25, 1944), was aimed at bypassing the German’s daunting Gustav Line in an effort to capture Rome. Read more
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A letter from a screenwriter researching WWII in 1994 turned journalist Christine Kuehn’s world upside down. The writer wanted to know what her father, 70-year-old Eberhard Kuehn, remembered about his own father’s life as a spy. Read more
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The explosion of the USS Maine on February 15, 1898, Cuba’s Havana harbor, did not directly result in war with Spain—but with the help of the “yellow press” and public opinion it did escalate tensions between the two countries. Read more
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Growing up in Britain, naturalized American citizen and University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell learned almost nothing in school about the American Revolution. Read more
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Recognizing that the Confederacy could not win a war of attrition, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered five simultaneous offensives in the spring of 1864 in a strategy to exhaust Southern resources and manpower. Read more
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In the pre-Revolutionary War era of the New England colonies, provincial soldiers fought a series of wars against New France and its Native American allies, with mixed results. Read more
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A wave of 177 Japanese aircraft approaching the U.S Naval base at Oahu’s Pearl Harbor became visible at 7:48 a.m. Read more
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The 1944 Battle of Leyte and the liberation of the Philippines was the largest and costliest campaign of the War in the Pacific. Read more
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Through intimate letters and many other sources, this book reveals Matisse’s journey of reinvention in the face of war and fascism to create some of his greatest art. Read more
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Unlike other African-American military units such as the Tuske-gee Airmen, or even the 10th Cavalry Regiment “Buffalo Soldiers” who occupied Fort Huachuca before them, the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions—the only two black units of divisional size in World War II—have received much less coverage in popular media over the past 80 years. Read more
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An ground-level view of island warfare by a U.S. Marine Corps rifleman who spent 27 months in the Pacific. Read more
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During the liberation of camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, American journalists documented the horrors for the world to see. Read more
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On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Graff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has drawn from oral history archives and hundreds of books, reports, letters, diaries, and transcripts from across the U.S., Read more
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Nasaw takes an unvarnished look at the real America in the years after World War II—after the parades and celebrations—and how it affected those who fought and their families and how it changed our nation. Read more
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Those who served the Protestant spiritual needs of the fighting men of the Civil War, in both official unofficial capacites, faced numerous barriers, shortages and hardships—though they did receive a captain’s salary and horse, they were not identified as such by the government, nor were they provided with uniforms, rations or forage for the horse. Read more
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Elizabeth Van Lew was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1818, to parents from Philadelphia and Long Island. Raised in a mansion in the city, she finished her education in Philadelphia. Read more
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The author brings to life the efforts of four women in different parts of Italy, who each in their own way found it within themselves to resist both Italian fascists and Nazi invaders. Read more
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Details the efforts of the resistance movement of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO), whose objective was autonomy for various indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in South Vietnam, including the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, the Chams in Central Vietnam, and the Khmer Krom in Southern Vietnam. Read more
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In a basement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a team of unconventional military cryptographers known as Station Hypo are led by Lt.-Com. Read more
