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General Omar Bradley: Dwight D Eisenhower’s Indispensible Lieutenant
By Cole KingseedGreat commanders need great subordinates. In the campaigns in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, General Dwight D. Read more
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Breaching the Blue Line: The Soviet Army at the Taman Peninsula
By Victor KamenirThe charred remains of men and machines scattered through the Kursk salient in July 1943 signified the death knell of the last attempt by the German Wehrmacht to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front. Read more
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Dorylaeum: The First Christian-Muslim Clash of the Crusades
By Scott A. RichardsonThe Battle of Dorylaeum, fought on July 1, 1097, marked the first full-scale military clash between the Christian armies of the West and the Muslim armies of the East. Read more
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The Madman of the Mountain: Adolf Hitler’s Personal Life
By Charles WhitingAdolf Hitler loved children. Before the war consumed all his energies he entertained children at his holiday home on the “mountain” all the time. Read more
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Sherman Tanks of the Israeli Army
By Christopher MiskimonFrom its inception, Zahal, the Israeli Army, has been forced to use ingenuity and improvisation to arm itself against its Arab enemies. Read more
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RMS Queen Mary’s War Service: Voyages to Victory
By Eric NiderostThe late summer of 1939 saw Great Britain teetering on the brink of war with Hitler’s Germany. The years of appeasement and vacillation, of meekly acquiescing to Hitler’s insatiable territorial demands, were over at last. Read more
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Trampled Banners: The Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
By William E. WelshFrom within the walled city of Nördlingen in the Upper Palatinate, a lone rocket arced slowly skyward on the night of September 3, 1634. Read more
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P-51 Mustang: The Untamed Beast of the Skies
By Sam McGowanIf a single airplane has captured the public imagination more than any other, it is undoubtedly the North American P-51 Mustang fighter. Read more
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Collecting War Comics
By Peter SuciuFor the brave soldiers of Easy Company, it must have seemed as though World War II would never end. Read more
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Chinese Alamo: Last Stand at Sihang Warehouse
By Eric NiderostOn October 27, 1937, the Zhabei district of Shanghai began to burn, an enormous conflagration that stretched for five miles and filled the northern horizon from end to end, almost as far as the eye could see. Read more
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A Hobbit on the Somme
By O’Brien BrowneSmoke and ash drifted across the shattered ground. Dead faces peered up with lidless eyes from pools of stagnant water. Read more
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Operations Titanic’s Paradummies
By Richard L. BakerUsing parachutes to insert large forces behind enemy lines quickly fostered the idea of also using decoys to sow doubt and confusion. Read more
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William Alexander: Hero of the American Revolution
By William Be. AllmonOf all the generals who fought on the Patriot side during the American Revolution, none was more renowned than New York City native William Alexander, better known to his contemporaries as “Lord Stirling.” Read more
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Poles in the West: Fighting in the Falaise Pocket
By Major General Michael ReynoldsThe dismemberment of Poland by the German and Soviet armies in September and early October 1939 saw the temporary destruction of the Polish armed forces. Read more
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Freedom or Death: The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
By Todd Avery Raffensperger“To the Great Stalin, from the grateful Hungarian People,” read the inscription on a 24-foot-high bronze statue of Joseph Stalin on the grounds of Budapest City Park, erected in 1951 to honor the tyrant of the Soviet Union. Read more
