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Michael Dobbs’ ‘The Six Minute War’

By Kevin Seabrooke

New York Times bestselling author and former Washington Post Moscow bureau chief Michael Dobbs reconstructs the harrowing inside story of Able Archer 83—a NATO military exercise in Germany that simulated nuclear war so realistically Soviet leaders feared a real preemptive strike and began counter-escalating. Read more

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Michael Rey and Oriana Zill De Granados’ ‘The Havana Syndrome’

By Kevin Seabrooke

This investigative account explores the terrifying malady that has afflicted up to 1,500 American officials worldwide. Beginning in Cuba in 2016 and expanding across the globe from Moscow and Shanghai to Vienna, these directed-energy attacks caused severe brain injuries reminiscent of Cold War–era Soviet microwave harassment against the U.S. Read more

B-24 Liberators of the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, one with an engine on fire, streak away from the Ploesti refineries they have just bombed in a painting by Robert Taylor.

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Adam Makos’ ‘Tidal Wave’

By Kevin Seabrooke

New York Times bestselling author Makos delivers a gripping account of the low-level B-24 bombing raid against Hitler’s oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania. Read more

Robert Taylor’s painting Valor in the Pacific shows Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 499th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, headed home to bases in the Marianas after dropping their cargoes of death and destruction on Tokyo. Low on fuel, their escort of P-51 Mustang fighters begins to turn away toward bases of their own.

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A. J. Baime’s ‘Bird Men’

By Kevin Seabrooke

This sweeping narrative chronicles the meteoric rise of U.S. military aviation through the career of General Henry “Hap” Arnold—who learned to fly with the Wright brothers in 1911 before guiding the Army Air Forces to global supremacy. Read more

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Medic: Pacific War

By Joseph Luster

As bombs rain from the skies and your fellow soldiers both fight and fall to either side, for once it’s not up to you to take the fight back to the enemy. Read more

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Lightnings on the Deck

By Patrick J. Chaisson

Second Lieutenant William Capron first saw the attacking Messerschmitts as black dots descending rapidly to ambush his squadron of American fighter-bombers. Read more

Comanche warriors ride into San Antonio, Texas, March 19, 1840, to discuss a potential peace treaty with representatives of the new Republic of Texas.

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The Great Comanche Raid of 1840

By Eric Niderost

It was a colorful spectacle few citizens in San Antonio, Texas, had ever expected to see: a large delegation of Comanches coming in to discuss terms of a possible peace treaty. Read more

Located at Helwan, Egypt, the Middle East Command Camouflage Development and Training Center was a think tank and laboratory for the deception efforts of A Force. Taken in 1941, this photo shows a British tank with its sunshield split during vehicle servicing on the workshop floor.

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Magic in the Desert

By Jon Diamond

In July 1939, Archibald Wavell was named General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Middle East Command with the rank of full general in the British Army. Read more

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‘So They Are NOT Against Us’

By Colonel Bernd Horn, Canadian Army (ret.)

The mid-afternoon stillness of the Pennsylvania wilderness was suddenly shattered by a crashing volley of musket fire. Read more

Corpsmen attend to a wounded Marine while others bring another wounded man up the beach at Betio. Illustration by Kerr Erby.

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Brutal Battle For Betio

By Steven Weingartner

Betio is the main island of the Tarawa Atoll in the Central Pacific nation of Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands. Read more

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Disaster at Nicopolis

By William E. Welsh

Thick black smoke rose skyward from burning villages on the southern frontier of the Hungarian Kingdom in the spring of 1395. Read more

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