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Lucian K. Truscott: The Soldier’s General
By Nathan N. PreferIn his Maxims of War, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote, “It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. Read more
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German Spymaster Reinhard Gehlen
By William F. Floyd, Jr.When Colonel-General Heinz Guderian, chief of the German General Staff, presented German leader Adolf Hitler with estimates of Russian strength for Operation Barbarossa, Hitler declared that the numbers were “completely idiotic” and “pure bluff.” Read more
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Siege of Lucknow: Sowing the Devil’s Wind
By Eric NiderostOn the evening of May 30, 1857, Julia Selina Inglis was preparing to go to bed when she heard an urgent knocking on her door. Read more
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Quatre Bras: First Blood at Waterloo
By Don HollwayIn the face of disaster, few military commanders in history maintained the British stiff upper lip as well as Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Read more
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Marine Fight for Tinian
By Richard Camp (Colonel, USMC, ret.)The island of Tinian is located in the Northern Marianas, three miles southwest of Saipan, 100 miles north of Guam, and 1,500 miles from mainland Japan. Read more
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Miracle Victory at the Battle of Minden
By David A. NorrisIt did not seem possible for them to hold on, yet six regiments of British infantry, standing with three battalions of Hanoverians, withstood a heavy artillery barrage on August 1, 1759, on a plain next to the fortress of Minden in the Electorate of Hanover. Read more
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Battle of Perryville: Death in the Kentucky Hills
By Mike PhiferConfederate Brig. Gen. George Maney maintained tight control of the three regiments in his first line as he pressed his attack against a key position on the extreme left flank of the Union Army on the afternoon of October 8, 1862. Read more
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Ancient Greek General Epaminondas
By Tim MillerAstounding news swept through Greece in the summer of 371 bc. In Boeotia, a crossroads for armies that was usually littered with the dead of its own citizens, the invading Spartans had been beaten, and one of their two kings had been slain in battle. Read more
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Nuclear Submarine Disaster
By Mark CarlsonEven in the age of ultra-sophisticated nuclear submarines, with their advanced computers, sonar, navigation, and communication systems, the hard truth is inescapable: the sea is the most hostile environment on Earth. Read more
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Allied Storm in Southern France
By Christopher MiskimonU.S. Army Sergeant Vere Williams listened to his instincts as his landing craft approached the beach. It was August 15, 1944, and his unit, the 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division was part of the invasion force for Operation Dragoon, the landings along France’s Mediterranean coast. Read more
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Rebel Misfire at Gettysburg
By Robert L. DurhamThe men of Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson’s North Carolina brigade, four regiments strong, marched forward as if on parade, their rifles at the right shoulder, as they went into battle on the first day at Gettysburg. Read more
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Battle for Monte Cassino: Hell on a Mountaintop
By Joshua ShepherdBy the evening of January 22, 1944, it was increasingly apparent that a drastic shift in strategy was needed to break the bloody debacle that had developed in central Italy. Read more
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The Elefant Tank Destroyer
By John E. SpindlerIt is dusk on July 17, 1943. The Red Army has not only withstood Hitler’s Operation Citadel to eliminate the Kursk salient, but it has launched its own offensive. Read more
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Ploesti Raid: A Tragic Tidal Wave
By Mark CarlsonHistory is almost never “chiseled into stone.” The fog of time can be blown away when new information emerges. Read more
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WWI’s Daring Cavalry Charge at Beersheba
By Alex ZakrzewskiIn late 1917, the most successful cavalry charge of World War I took place not on the muddy killing fields of the Western Front, but at the foot of the Judean Hills in southern Palestine. Read more
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The Main Civil War Generals Who Helped Define the War
By Roy Morris, Jr.Mr. Morris is the author of seven well-received books on 19th Century American history and literature. He has served as a consultant for A&E, the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on American Civil War and post-Civil War history, journalism and literature. Read more
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Roman General Sulla
By Peter L. BoornWhen Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was governor of Cilicia in 95 bc, he received an embassy from the Parthians. Read more
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British Submarine Operations in the Pacific
By Arnold Blumberg
After the Royal Navy’s traumatic departure from the Pacific Ocean in early 1942, the 4th Submarine Flotilla and its depot ship, the HMS Adamant, operated with the Eastern Fleet based at Trincomalee––a large, natural harbor located on the coast of Sri Lanka in the heart of the Indian Ocean. Read more
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War of Sieges
By Eric NiderostIn the summer of 1216 a large French army appeared just outside the gates of Dover Castle, a magnificent fortress on the southeast coast of England. Read more
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Canada’s Darkest Day During World War II
By Brent DyckOn the morning of August 19, 1942, the Canadian 2nd Division sailed across the English Channel and attacked the Nazi-held port of Dieppe, France. Read more
