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August 2006
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Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results!   |
Salon.com
March 28, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
World War II
September 2005
Hans Klein |
Hans Klein: Across the Desert With Rommel's Afrika Korps During his time with the Hermann Goring Division in North Africa, the author's devotion to the Afrika Korps and its commander, Erwin Rommel, was absolute. |
World War II
June 2006
Williamson Murray |
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox's Defense of Normandy During World War II, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's decision to stop the Allied invasion of France at the water's edge was contrary to the rule book and anathema to his more tradition-bound contemporaries. |
World War II
Michael Reynolds |
Massacre at Malmedy By carefully separating fact from fiction, a clearer picture emerges of the events surrounding the infamous execution of American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II
John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
World War II
Albano Castelletto |
The Last Horse Warriors In a firsthand account, a former artillery lieutenant recalls his experience with the Voloire Regiment during Operation Barbarossa, when Italy's horse-drawn field artillery proved its worth on the Russian Front. |
World War II
Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
World War II
Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front. |
World War II
Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught. |
World War II
November 2007
Ronald H. Bailey |
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs in the U.S. during WWII This time, it was German POWs digging their way out of an Arizona prison camp in a plot that was brilliant, daring, and farcical. |
World War II
February 2007
Dick Camp |
The Leatherneck Resistance: A Secret World War II OSS Mission An elite group of Marine paratroopers joins French freedom fighters on a covert mission behind enemy lines. |
Salon.com
June 11, 2002
Allen Barra |
"The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war. |
Military History
June 2005
William R. Trotter |
The Music of War Ever since Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho, music has served as both a psychological weapon and a way to communicate in battle. |
| World War II |
Letters From Readers - January/February 2008 - World War II One of the greatest acts of mass murder in the history of warfare... I was a child survivor of the war in Shanghai, China... Lend-Lease tanks and aircraft only a small place in the Soviet force structure... etc. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Thomas E. Ayres |
"Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World In the aftermath of 9/11, some have called for a ruthless, `gloves-off' response that would sweep aside legal and political obstacles. Yet the American public's response to the Abu Ghraib abuses provides strong evidence that such an approach is still inconsistent with America's values. |
Civil War Times
August 2005
John Cabell Early |
A Southern Boy Remembers Gettysburg Major General Jubal Early's nephew recalls the famous meeting on July 1 between his uncle and General Robert E. Lee during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania. |
Vietnam
June 2007
Richard C. Barrett |
Bud Day: Vietnam War POW Hero The only American POW to escape North Vietnam missed being rescued by minutes, costing him more than five years in brutal captivity. |
Civil War Times
December 2003
Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
World War II
September 2007 |
Letters From Readers Unlikely Comrades in Arms... The Shot Heard 'Round Shanghai... A Survivor Who Spoke for Many... etc. |
Military History
January 2007 |
Letters From Readers Venona Files Reviewed... Wehrmacht's Comeuppance... Levy and the Appeasement Myth... Nurnberg, Not Dresden... etc. |
Wired
Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
World War II
Sep/Oct 2006 |
Letters From Readers An unusual recruit... Remembering the Navy's 'sidewheeler' carriers... Love of Browning Automatic Rifle off-target?... Following the route of a WWII forced march... Another archived information source... |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
American History
William & Mary Lavender |
Suffragists' Storm Wartime Washington dealt brutally with imprisoned suffragists who dared picket the White House for the right to vote in 1917. |
Reason
July 2003
Sara Rimensnyder |
Soundbite: Horrors Told The cruel system of Soviet work camps known as the gulag terrorized some 18 million prisoners -- and yet its history has been relatively overlooked in the catalog of 20th-century horrors. So Anne Applebaum devoted the last 6 years to writing the fascinating, horrifying Gulag: A History |
Information Today
December 9, 2010 |
Gale to Digitize McMaster University's Holocaust and Resistance Collections The Holocaust collection covers the period between 1933 and 1945, when millions of people were imprisoned and died in Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe. |
America's Civil War
July 2005
Faye Royster Tuck |
Eyewitness Account: A Tar Heel at Gettysburg After capture, Lawrence D. Davis had to undergo being reviewed by 'big & fat' Ben Butler. |
World War II
February 2007 |
Letters From Readers Was Wehrmacht Inside Abbey?... Blood for Dignity Revisited... Remembering Sassoon's Shanghai... Ship's Flag in Good Hands... Correction... |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
David Horowitz |
Pardoned, but unforgiving After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, former Weatherman member Linda Evans is still an enemy of American democracy... |
Popular Mechanics
April 10, 2009 |
The Evidence: Debunking FEMA Camp Myths The idea of the government seizing all the nation's farmland or forcing Americans into labor camps is without basis - -except in Hollywood. |
