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Military Weapons: The Davy Crockett Mobile Missile Launcher
By Peter A. GoetzDesign work for a minimum-size atomic warhead called the XW-51 began at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in the mid 1950s. Read more
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Bloody Fiasco at the Crater
By Arnold BlumbergIn the summer of 1864, after six weeks of virtually constant combat in the Wilderness area of northern Virginia, the Union and Confederate armies of Ulysses S. Read more
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Frank McDonough’s ‘The Hitler Years’
By Kevin SeabrookeThe apologue of the “boiling frog,” which postulates that an amphibian placed in a pot of tepid water that is gradually heated to the point of boiling won’t notice the increase and jump out. Read more
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David Lyle Williams’ ‘The Road to Cisterna’
By Kevin SeabrookeThe 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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Richard J. Evans’ ‘Hitler’s People’
By Kevin SeabrookeMuch has been written on the politics and institutions of Germany during the rise of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Read more
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Jeffrey Cox’s ‘Devil’s Fire’
By Kevin SeabrookeThe first major Allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II, the brutal six-month struggle that was the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign (August 1942-February 1943) marked a turning point in the war as U.S. Read more
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Cheryl W. Thompson’s ‘Forgotten Souls’
By Kevin SeabrookeAn investigative journalist for NPR and the daughter of one of the Tuskegee Airmen—the Black pilots who mostly flew as fighter escorts for America during WWII—the author follows the legacy of the 27 men who never came back. Read more
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Sinclair McKay’s ‘Saint Petersburg’
By Kevin SeabrookeWithin the expansive history of Russia’s iconic second largest city, from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, McKay details the nearly 900 days of the Siege of Leningrad (as the city was then known), considered to be one of the worst sieges in history, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths out of city population of about 3.2 million. Read more
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Alan Allport’s ‘Advance Britannia’
By Kevin SeabrookeProfessor Allport’s Advance Britannia picks up where Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941, described by The Wall Street Journal as “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written,” left off. Read more
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Ian Buruma’s ‘Stay Alive’
By Kevin SeabrookeAlready a struggle, life in Berlin grew worse in 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, and then nightmarish as the Allied bombs began to fall, before the terror of the approaching Red Army gripped the city. Read more
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David vs Goliath
By Glenn BarnettWhen Stalin and Hitler signed a non-aggression pact in August 1939, they secretly created spheres of influence. Besides dividing up Poland, they agreed to allow each other free reign over nations and territories they deemed important. Read more
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Rising Sun and Russian Bear
By Michael E. Haskew
For three centuries, feudal Japan remained comfortably isolated from the rest of the world. By order of the Tokugawa Shogunate, foreigners landing on Japanese shores risked immediate execution. Read more
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The Mitsubishi Zero Gave ‘Made in Japan’ New Respect
By Joseph M. HorodyskiThe psychological and military shock that the Allies experienced when they first encountered Mitsubishi’s legendary A6M2 Zero fighter plane at the beginning of the Pacific War may be difficult to understand today. Read more
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Bloody Clash on the Tiber
By Tim MillerOn October 28, ad 312, a Roman emperor was drowning. The sight must have amazed his soldiers. All summer Rome had been filled with rumors of the western emperor, Constantine, and the ease with which he and his army had crossed the Alps and, once on Italian soil, strung together a handful of victories in the north. Read more
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William “Wild Bill” Donovan: America’s Spymaster in WWII
By Peter KrossOn July 14, 1940, William Donovan stood on the pier fronting New York harbor and waited to board the Pan Am flying boat named the Lisbon Clipper for a flight that would take him to Portugal and then to London, his ultimate destination. Read more
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Vierville-sur-Mer: Cracking a Critical Draw at Omaha Beach
By Kevin M. HymellShortly after 8 am on June 6, 1944, a German officer overlooking the Vierville-sur-Mer Draw on Omaha Beach reported that the soldiers defending the beach were repelling the Americans: “The enemy is in search of cover behind the coastal zone obstacles. Read more
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Japanese Battleship Yamato Makes Its Final Stand
Dy Gerald AstorIn the late afternoon of April 6, 1945, five days after American GIs and leathernecks scrambled onto an Okinawa beach a scant 500 miles from Japan, two U.S. Read more
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War of the Triple Alliance: Bloodbath in Paraguay
By Robert HeegeAlmost from the beginning, the short, violent reign of Paraguayan strongman Francisco Solano Lopez devolved into a nightmare from which his unfortunate people could not awake. Read more
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M26 Pershing: Why America’s Heavy Tank Arrived Too Late for WWII
By Arnold Blumberg“We had been assured by our officers before we invaded France in 1944,” recorded Bill Harris, “that our Sherman tanks could take care of any Nazi armor we met there.” Read more
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Northwest Indian War: Marching Against Little Turtle
By Robert A. LynnIn the 1780s the Founding Fathers of the United States didn’t so much revise the old Articles of Confederation as devise an entirely new government as set forth in the Constitution. Read more
