The Rescue of Danish Jews
Since its one-day conquest on April 9, 1940, Denmark had been a relatively quiet backwater among the nations conquered and …
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What If…? Armageddon 1962 Documentary Has an Alternate Take on History
The sad reality for writers and members of the media like myself, is that 99.99 percent of what we do …
Seventy Years Later, Relics of South Pacific Fighting Still Powerful
As an astronaut in Earth orbit I spent every spare moment I could scrutinizing the lovely face of our planet, …
Book Review – Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War’s Pivotal Battles and Campaigns
As a self-diagnosed Civil War buff, the barrage of news books set to coincide with the ongoing Civil War Sesquicentennial …
Axis POWs in America
When Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki awoke on Waimanalo Beach on Oahu on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, the exhausted survivor …
MacArthur For President
In his autobiography Reminiscences, Douglas MacArthur wrote of his relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt, “In my own case, whatever differences …
M60 Machine Gun Was Loved, Hated by G.I.s
It was a fixture in Vietnam.
Second only to the Huey helicopter as the “most recognizable” weapon of its era …
The Quadrant Conference: Marshall Versus Churchill
Crossing Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall was never a good move. Though his reputation for integrity and …
The Death of Jean Moulin: The French Resistance Gets Its Greatest Martyr
When Jean Moulin offered his services to Gen. Charles de Gaulle in October 1941, the leader of the Free French …
The Surrender of Italy: The Allies’ Bungled Opportunity
Gen. George S. Patton called it “the unforgiving minute”– that moment in combat when opportunity for success at little or …