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Stalin’s Contributions to Victory
By Mason B. WebbIn the West, the Soviet Union’s contributions to the Allied victory over the Third Reich are generally unknown or underappreciated. Read more
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Pétain: Savior of France
Dear Editor:
Regarding your July 2009 issue about Marshal Philippe Pétain: Most of us subconsciously view the French through British eyes, and the results are often unbalanced even when the facts are accurate. Read more
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OSS Uncovered
Like any spy network worth its salt, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the U.S. World War II intelligence-gathering agency authorized by President Franklin D. Read more
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Empire Is As Close To Perfect As Computer Wargames Get
By Eric T. BakerCreative Assembly, and its publishers at Sega, have become the last, best hope of grognards who want triple A quality wargames on the PC. Read more
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Churchill the Warlord
By Al HemingwayIn 1958, Royal Marine General Sir Leslie Hollis visited the old Central War Room in London where he had spent numerous hours during World War II. Read more
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William Bligh’s Mutiny on the Bounty
By Roy Morris Jr.William Bligh, like the title character in Woody Allen’s 1983 movie Zelig, seemed to turn up everywhere history was being made in the latter decades of the 18th century. Read more
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WWII Pacific Theater has both mega- and mini-battles.
By Eric T. BakerThe third game in the Strategic Command series from Fury Software for the PC is Strategic Command: WWII Pacific Theater. Read more
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“How Dare WE!”
Dear Editor:
I was offended and angered as I read the rhetoric of Kevin M. Hymel’s article entitled “They Also Served” in the May 2009 issue. Read more
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Ordeal of the USS Bunker Hill
By Mason B. WebbAt exactly 9:58 am, on May 11, 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot named Kiyoshi Ogawa radioed his base 350 miles away that he had spotted the American fleet lying off the coast of Okinawa. Read more
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Two New Games For Civil War Buffs
By Eric T. BakerMosby’s Confederacy from Tilted Mill Entertainment for the PC and available on both Steam and Gamers Gate is a combined tactical and strategic level game about the mechanics of partisan warfare in the Civil War. Read more
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The Disastrous Battle of Carrhae
By Al HemingwayNo man in Rome was richer or more influential than Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the powerful First Triumvirate that included Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. Read more
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The Battle of Surigao Strait
Dear Editor:
In the December 2008 issue, Mr. David Johnson does a very good job of retelling the story of the only time American battleships engaged and sank their opposite numbers from Japan. Read more
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Axis & Allies celebrates Avalon Hill’s 50th anniversary.
By Eric T. BakerTo celebrate its 50th anniversary [we now pause for a second while we all feel old], Avalon Hill has released an anniversary edition of its most successful game: Axis and Allies. Read more
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor
By Mason B. Webb“I do believe that the United States fleet would not have been in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, had I been the chief of naval operations at that time.” Read more
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Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
By Al HemingwayThe case of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, the first African-American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, is a fascinating if cautionary tale. Read more
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Look down the barrel of a sniper’s gun and “hold breath.”
By Eric T. BakerWhen considering whether to buy Sniper Art of Victory from City Interactive for the PC, it is worth remembering that the game only costs $20.00. Read more
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Questions on the Holocaust
By Mason B. WebbOne of the most common beliefs that has arisen since the end of World War II is that America and her allies had as one of their primary goals for fighting the war ending the systematic slaughter of Europe’s Jews. Read more
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Pearl Harbor Countdown
By Al HemingwayNearly seven decades after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy and Air Force on the morning of December 7, 1941, controversy still surrounds the history-changing event. Read more
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The Common Soldier in the Post-Civil War Era
As author Lee Chambers’s new book on Fort Abraham Lincoln (reviewed in this issue) illustrates, the reading public, both in the United States and abroad, remains fascinated by life in the West following the Civil War. Read more
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Prisoner of War
By Robert F. DorrHe enlisted in 1934. Except for those at Pearl Harbor, he was the first American casualty of the war. Read more
