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Savage Struggle for Leningrad
By Blaine TaylorLeningrad was the sacred city of Soviet Communism. The port city on the Neva River, 400 miles northwest of Moscow, began life in 1703 as Petrograd, or St. Read more
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World War II Odyssey Across Europe
By Roy AltenbachRoy Altenbach, a soldier from a German-speaking family in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was assigned to the 47th Medium Maintenance Company, 22nd Ordnance Battalion. Read more
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Hitler’s Wonder Weapons
By Mason B. WebbImagine that you are an Allied soldier in the ETO. You are in your foxhole on the front line, looking and listening for any sign that the Germans are about to attack your position. Read more
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Bloody Stand at the Battle of Albuera
By Simon ReesAmid gun smoke and squalls of rain, the men of 1st Battalion, 3rd Foot, known as the Buffs, were firing their weapons and listening for further orders. Read more
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Desperate Los Baños Raid
By Christopher MiskimonHenry Muller had an important job. He was the intelligence officer of the 11th Airborne Division, known in military parlance as the G-2. Read more
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The Taylor-Smith feud derailed the Red River Campaign
The feud between Confederate generals Richard Taylor and Kirby Smith remains one of the most contentious examples of in-fighting in the Confederate high command during the American Civil War. Read more
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Operation Cobra: Get a Move On!
By Patrick J. ChaissonCompany B’s jeeps, armored cars, and self-propelled guns stood lined up on a narrow road, their crewmen anxious to move out. Read more
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Erwin Rommel’s War Photos: Images the Desert Fox Took Himself
By Zita Ballinger FletcherThe name Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—associated with tank warfare in Europe and North Africa during World War II—might conjure up mental images of the famous “Desert Fox” riding in a panzer, reviewing maps, or commanding battles. Read more
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One Classic RTS Experience and a Collection of Zombie War Shooters Make Their Respective Debuts on New Platforms
By Joseph LusterWhen you think of the classics of the real-time strategy genre, which titles come to mind? For some, it might be a staple of the 90s, like the Command & Conquer series, while others might be quicker to namecheck the likes of Warcraft or StarCraft. Read more
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Hitler’s Death in the Führerbunker
By Flint Whitlock
His world was literally crashing down in flames around him. Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, which he had created out of nothing but his own will—an empire that he had once boasted would last for a millennium—was on fire and being torn apart by shot and shell, besieged on all sides. Read more
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Battle of the Java Sea: Desperate Delaying Action
By David LippmanThe ships left just before sunset on February 26, 1942, passing out of a harbor jammed with wreckage, battered docks, fires, the stench of burning oil, and Dutch women, children, and old men—most of them relatives of the crews heading out—waving their men goodbye and good luck. Read more
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Fight to Survive in Call of Duty’s Take on the Wildly Popular Battle Royale Genre
By Joseph LusterIt’s been a while since Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds first swept everyone up in the battle royale craze, and reigning champion Fortnite is still going strong after all this time. Read more
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Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River
By Victor KamenirA tumultuous discussion raged in the hall of Mstislav III “The Old” Romanovich, the Grand Prince of Kiev, in March 1223. Read more
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WWII Pioneers of Skip Bombing
By Gene Eric SaleckerBy September 1942, after numerous aerial strikes against the advancing Imperial Japanese Navy, the Battle of the Coral Sea in May, and numerous attacks against enemy convoys along the New Guinea coast in the summer of that year, Maj. Read more
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Book Reviews: WWII’s Mission Impossible, generals in the making, and more
By Christopher MiskimonThe Winter Line was the German Army’s defensive position in Southern Italy in late 1943. Set into high mountains which dominated the surrounding terrain, numerous Allied attacks against it failed, always with heavy casualties. Read more
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P-40 Fighter Pilot: Fighting for His Life
By Patrick J. ChaissonThe four Curtiss P-40 Warhawks plummeted 10,000 feet over NewGuinea’s coastline to ambush their quarry. Flight leader 1st Lt. Read more
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Captured at the Bulge
By Kevin M. HymelPrivate Leon Goldberg pulled the trigger on his heavy, water-cooled M-1917 Browning machine gun and fired bursts of .30-caliber rounds into the attacking German infantry. Read more
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Operation Torch: Invasion of North Africa
By Michael D. HullComing after a series of bitter defeats from France to Norway to Crete, news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II was one of the early high points of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s leadership years. Read more
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Night Battleship Action Off Guadalcanal
By David Alan JohnsonRear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee has been called, among other things, “one of the best brains in the Navy.” Read more
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Rans Wright’s “Mad Georgians” at Gettysburg
On the extreme left of the Confederate attack on July 2 against the Union Forces defending Cemetery Ridge, there came a moment when Union commander George Meade’s personal safety was in danger. Read more
