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Spectacular Magazine
Dear Editor,
To put it simply, WWII History is a spectacular magazine.
Nowhere else can one find such well-researched, clear, or concise articles as the ones found on your pages. Read more
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Confidence in leadership and military will lead to victory in a just cause.
General Douglas MacArthur once said that the soldier above all prays for peace because he knows the terrible price of war. Read more
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Marshal Georgi Zhukov: Hero of the Soviet Union
By Blaine Taylor
The German Wehrmacht had just invaded the Soviet Union in the predawn hours of June 22, 1941, and the chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, was calling the Kremlin in Moscow to alert dictator Josef Stalin, nicknamed “The Chief. Read more
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Lili Marlene
By Sheldon WinklerThe true story of “Lili Marlene,” possibly the most famous war song ever written because of its universal themes of separation, loneliness, heartbreak, hope, fear of death, and dreaming for one’s love, is varying, contradictory, and controversial. Read more
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Marine Rifleman
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty,” began the citation for the Medal of Honor awarded to then-U.S. Read more
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H. Paul Jeffers’ ‘In the Roughrider’s Shadow’
By Michael D. HullWhen the men of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 4th Infantry Division stepped out of a Higgins boat into waist-deep water at Utah Beach, Normandy, early on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, they were accompanied by a short, slender man with a dented nose. Read more
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Admiral Spruance
Dear Sir,
I have just obtained a copy of your November issue which has just found its way into my local bookshop. Read more
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The National World War II Memorial is scheduled for dedication May 29, 2004.
Fifty-nine years after the end of the most horrific conflict ever known, American veterans of World War II will have a memorial dedicated on May 29, 2004. Read more
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Community of Cossacks
By Eric T. BakerCossacks: Back to War, from CDV for the PC, is the third in the Cossacks series of games. Read more
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Marching with the Big Red One
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Kill them, Lieutenant. Don’t take any prisoners,” exhorted the bedraggled engineer officer to the new replacements, “Don’t take any prisoners!” Read more
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Cesare Borgia was an extraordinary concoction of good and bad.
Military commanders might nearly always be odd mixtures: using violent means for ends they consider justified. But some we can only view with consternation. Read more
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Years after a bitter war, Chinese officials invited Japanese veterans to return to the Asian mainland.
By Ulrich A. StrausAmerican perceptions of Japan’s war with China (1937-1945) have been formed by the reports on the Nanking Massacre and similar examples of Japanese brutality. Read more
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McCarthy and Syron’s ‘Panzerkrieg’
By Michael D. HullWhen German forces rumbled across the Polish frontier in the early hours of Friday, September 1, 1939, igniting World War II, it was the speed and mobility of the armored divisions—the Panzerwaffe—that stunned the world. Read more
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The U.S. Fifth Air Force: A Strategy to Win
By Sam McGowanAlthough the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the event that served to galvanize America to fight World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers had pervasively decided that defeating the Japanese would be secondary to destroying the Nazi war machine in Europe. Read more
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C.R. Smith
Dear Editor:
I awaited the “Dispatches” to question why C.R. Smith’s name was not acknowledged in “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” (July 2002) about the Air Transport Command (ATC), written by Sam McGowan. Read more
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Adolf Eichmann eluded the authorities for 17 years after the end of WWII.
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, ended the notorious career of one of the most ruthless and anti-Semitic Nazis. Read more
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Attack on a Tank
By Robert Ritter von Greim, Leader of Jasta 34b and Jagdgruppe 10Translated and with comments by O’Brien Browne
This combat diary account by Robert Ritter von Greim describes the frantic attempts of the German Air Force to halt Allied attacks in the closing months of WWI. Read more
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Uncommon Valor
By Eric T. Baker
Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific is new from Matrix Games. Together with legendary game designer Gary Grigsby, Joel Billings and Keith Brors of 2by3Games have created an operational campaign game of the South Pacific during World War II. Read more
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Rommel and Caporetto
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I was generally static, stultifying, and unimaginative. Read more
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Revolutionary Education
Dear Editor:
What an absolute delight to read James K. Swisher’s article, “Duel in the Backwoods” (December 2002), about the Battle of Cowpens and General Daniel Morgan’s superb generalship and guiding hand during this battle. Read more
