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Trampled Banners: The Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
By William E. WelshFrom within the walled city of Nördlingen in the Upper Palatinate, a lone rocket arced slowly skyward on the night of September 3, 1634. Read more
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P-51 Mustang: The Untamed Beast of the Skies
By Sam McGowanIf a single airplane has captured the public imagination more than any other, it is undoubtedly the North American P-51 Mustang fighter. Read more
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Collecting War Comics
By Peter SuciuFor the brave soldiers of Easy Company, it must have seemed as though World War II would never end. Read more
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Chinese Alamo: Last Stand at Sihang Warehouse
By Eric NiderostOn October 27, 1937, the Zhabei district of Shanghai began to burn, an enormous conflagration that stretched for five miles and filled the northern horizon from end to end, almost as far as the eye could see. Read more
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A Hobbit on the Somme
By O’Brien BrowneSmoke and ash drifted across the shattered ground. Dead faces peered up with lidless eyes from pools of stagnant water. Read more
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Operations Titanic’s Paradummies
By Richard L. BakerUsing parachutes to insert large forces behind enemy lines quickly fostered the idea of also using decoys to sow doubt and confusion. Read more
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William Alexander: Hero of the American Revolution
By William Be. AllmonOf all the generals who fought on the Patriot side during the American Revolution, none was more renowned than New York City native William Alexander, better known to his contemporaries as “Lord Stirling.” Read more
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Poles in the West: Fighting in the Falaise Pocket
By Major General Michael ReynoldsThe dismemberment of Poland by the German and Soviet armies in September and early October 1939 saw the temporary destruction of the Polish armed forces. Read more
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Freedom or Death: The Hungarian Uprising of 1956
By Todd Avery Raffensperger“To the Great Stalin, from the grateful Hungarian People,” read the inscription on a 24-foot-high bronze statue of Joseph Stalin on the grounds of Budapest City Park, erected in 1951 to honor the tyrant of the Soviet Union. Read more
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The D-Day Invasion: The Road to Operation Overlord
By Michael D. HullSoon after the tattered British Expeditionary Force was miraculously rescued from Dunkirk in June 1940, planners at the War Office in London began dreaming of returning to the German-occupied European continent. Read more
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Alexandria: Redcoats in the Land of the Pharaohs
By Eric NiderostIt was a spectacle never to be forgotten by those few who were lucky enough to witness it. Read more
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The Thunder of Operation Gallop
By Pat McTaggartAs Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Sixth Army lay in its death throes in the ruins of Stalingrad, German forces to the west of the city faced their own kind of hell. Read more
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Like Apples Fallen In Autumn: The Battle of Shrewsbury
By Al HemingwayBy the middle of July 1403, a series of seemingly inevitable events had led two armies to a field near the small and hitherto unheralded village of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, approximately 150 miles northwest of London. Read more
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Was Leon Degrelle a Traitor of Belgium, or a German Army Hero?
By Richard RuleLeon Degrelle was born in 1906 in Belgium to a prosperous family in the French-speaking region of Wallonia. Read more
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The French 75 Gun: The Secret Cannon Used for Over Half a Century
By Christopher MiskimonA regiment of Bavarian infantry advanced quietly in the dark, rising from its own trenches and moving toward the French lines across the desolate no-man’s-land in between. Read more
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Was It Right to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
By Sam McGowanThe most controversial decision of the 20th century—probably in all of history—was the one reportedly made by President Harry S. Read more
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Fort Necessity: George Washington’s First Defeat
By Kevin M. HymelGeorge Washington looked down at the surrender documents. They were soaked from pouring rain and the ink was splotched. Read more
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WWII Secrets: The Mysterious Inga Arvad
By Peter KrossShortly before Pearl Harbor, an attractive Danish journalist arrived in the United States to pursue a writing career. Read more
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Wilhelm I, Accidental King of Prussia
By Blaine TaylorIn mid-October 1806, four days after Napoleon had crushed the Royal Prussian Army at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstädt, a distraught Queen Louise sat down with her two sons at the royal castle in Schwedt. Read more
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Night Battle: The Barroom Brawl Off Guadalcanal
By David Alan JohnsonNovember 13, 1942, was a Friday, which sailors aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco noted with anxiety. Read more
