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The Film and Battle of San Pietro
By Michael E. Haskew
The monotonous rattle and snap of the film projector provided a steady accompaniment to the images flickering across the screen in the darkened room. Read more
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Adolf Hitler and the Euthanasia Connection
By Charles W. SasserWorld War II, the deadliest military conflict in history, claimed the lives of nearly four percent of the Earth’s 1940 census. Read more
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Return to Leyte
By David H. LippmanApprised of an approaching LCM full of VIPs, the beachmaster surveyed his busy dock full of ships loading and unloading troops and supplies at Red Beach on the Philippine island of Leyte. Read more
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The feudal Korean ‘fire cart’ was a precursor to modern barrage rocket systems.
By M.G. HaynesKorean General Kwon Yul shouted the one-word order down the hill. Scarcely had it left his lips before it was lost in a deafening crash. Read more
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The Story of Ruby Boye, Australia’s Only Female Coastwatcher
By Patrick J. ChaissonFor Australian coastwatcher Ruby Boye, an Allied agent stationed on the South Pacific island of Vanikoro, it started much like any other morning. Read more
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The Story of Bill Millin, Lord Lovat’s Mad Piper of Sword Beach
By Michael D. HullIt was the evening of Monday, June 5, 1944, and an armada of almost 5,000 ships stood off the southern coast of England, primed and ready for the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Read more
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The Battle of Corinth
By Robert L. DurhamIn the fall of 1862, Confederate armies were making their first and only coordinated effort to carry the war into the North. Read more
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Known as ‘Black Death,’ Henry Johnson finally earns U.S. recognition for valor.
By Kevin SeabrookeIn the early hours of May 15, 1918, U.S. Army Corporal Henry Johnson and Private Needham Roberts sat in an outpost along the French lines at the western edge of the Argonne Forest. Read more
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Pearl Harbor: Irredeemable Defeat
By Frank R. ShirerEDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a work of fiction written as if it were historical fact. It is a chapter in a book of alternate history entitled Rising Sun Victorious (Greenhill Books, London, 2001), which is a compilation of like chapters and was a Main Choice of the Military Book Club and Alternate Selection of the History Book Club. Read more
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Winston Churchill’s Two Battles
By David Alan JohnsonDuring the summer of 1940, Winston Churchill was fighting a two-front war. The first was against Adolf Hitler and his war machine, particularly his Luftwaffe. Read more
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The Ambitious Vietnam Operation
By Victor KamenirBy January 1967, the buildup of Communist forces in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) convinced Gen. William Westmoreland that a large-scale incursion by North Vietnam’s People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) was only a matter of time. Read more
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The Tragic Story of Mordecai Booth and the Burning of the Washington Navy Yard.
By Robert P. Watson, Ph.D.News arrived in the capital city that the British army had defeated a hastily-gathered and rag-tag collection of American soldiers, sailors, militiamen, and government clerks in Maryland at Bladensburg. Read more
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Get the Transports!
By Eric HammelThe seesaw land, air, and sea battles on, over, and around desperately contested Guadalcanal island had been raging since August 7, and still there was no victor. Read more
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Edwin T. Layton
By Mike MclaughlinOn the morning of December 31, 1941, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Read more
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Alfred the Great: Scholar, Strategist, Swordsman
By David A. NorrisIn January 871 Alfred, prince of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, waited for his brother in the tense moments before battle. Read more
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11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, 1916
Headgear: The steel Brodie helmet became standard by July 1916.
Uniform: Khaki woolen 1902 Pattern Service Dress Tunic and Trousers.
Gas Mask: His gas mask, called a gas helmet, is in a canvas bag slung under his left arm. Read more
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Presaging Pearl Harbor
By Steven WeingartnerWhen Lt. Cmdr. Matsuo Fuchida, commander of the Japanese strike force at Pearl Harbor, arrived over the naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941, the sight that greeted him—enemy battleships resting placidly at anchor—put him in mind of an earlier war. Read more
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Collecting German Helmets of World War II
By Peter SuciuIn the annals of 20th-century warfare the modern combat helmet has easily become one of the most recognizable pieces of battlefield equipment. Read more
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The Battle of Poltava and the Birth of Modern Russia
By Kelly BellMore than 300 years ago Russia was a supine giant convulsing internally from factionalism, making it difficult to resist hostile incursions, until 23-year-old Crown Prince Peter I ascended to the tsarist throne in 1696. Read more
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16 Military History Book Reviews for Summer 2024
By Christopher Miskimon Full ReviewsThe Showman: Inside the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky (Simon Schuster, William Morrow, New York NY, 2024, 363 pp., Read more
