Intelligence
Civil War Intelligence
By Arnold BlumbergThe Union officer saw it quite clearly across the Rappahannock River: a hand-painted sign held up by a Rebel soldier that read, “Burnside and his pontoons stuck in the mud. Read more
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Curt Prufer’s German Espionage in the Near East
By Kevin Morrow
Robert Mors was in serious trouble. Immigration officials had stopped him for questioning upon his arrival at the port of Alexandria, Egypt, from Istanbul, and they immediately became suspicious. Read more
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Tyler Kent: U.S. Spy for Nazi Germany
By William F. Floyd, Jr.Kent was seated at the breakfast table. Knight informed him that they had come to conduct a search of his residence. 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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Italian War Criminal Rodolfo Graziani
By Blaine TaylorThe town of Affile in Italy’s Lazio region erected a mausoleum to Italian Army Marshal Rodolfo Graziani in August 2012. Read more
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Takeo Yoshikawa and the Spies Behind the Pearl Harbor Attack
By Phil Zimmer“You are probably the nearest to war that you’ll ever be without actually being in it,” said Commander Harold M. Read more
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Death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
By Phil ZimmerAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, intended to press ahead with his morale-boosting visits to forward units in the South Pacific in April 1943, despite dire warnings from subordinates of possible enemy ambushes. Read more
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Raid on St. Nazaire
By William F. Floyd, Jr.The British flotilla moved with determination into the Loire estuary after midnight on May 28, 1942. Read more
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Nazi Propagandist William Joyce
By Blaine TaylorThe most famous of the English-Language radio broadcasters from Nazi Germany was Brooklyn, New York-born William Joyce, known by the disparaging moniker Lord Haw Haw. Read more
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Union Balloon Corps
By Don HollwayA week after the first shots of the War Between the States at Fort Sumter in April 1861, the future of warfare came to Appalachia. Read more
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William Wells
By Joshua ShepherdLong before he attained fame as the co-commander of the Lewis and Clark expedition, William Clark was a discontented young lieutenant assigned to the U.S. Read more
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Sir Francis Walsingham
By Arnold BlumbergAmong the many portraits of famous Elizabethans hanging in London’s National Portrait Gallery is that of Sir Francis Walsingham, painted around 1587 by the artist John De Critz the Elder. Read more
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Dudley Clarke’s Commandos
By Jon DiamondAfter the British Expeditionary Force’s (BEF) debacle at Dunkirk in northern France in May 1940, the new prime minister, Winston Churchill, needed a novel type of fighting force to strike back at Nazi Europe. Read more
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Mildred Gillars (a.k.a. ‘Axis Sally’) in WWII
“This is Berlin calling the American mothers, wives and sweethearts. And I’d just like to say, girls, when Berlin calls it pays to listen.” Read more
