History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Front & Center http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Tue, 21 May 2013 15:50:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Diversion http://www.historynet.com/diversion.htm http://www.historynet.com/diversion.htm#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 20:08:08 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13688382 It's a familiar figure of speech: "What if they gave a war, and no one came?"

I am old enough to recognize this slogan. I was born in 1958, the youngest of five, with my older siblings in college. I …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/diversion.htm/feed 5 Why Anvil Gets No Respect http://www.historynet.com/why-anvil-gets-no-respect.htm http://www.historynet.com/why-anvil-gets-no-respect.htm#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:07:14 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13688255 Last time out, I wrote about a forgotten campaign: the Allied landing in the south of France in August 1944. The planners first called it Operation Anvil, then renamed it Dragoon just days before it took place. By any accounting, …

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Life isn't fair, and neither is history. Indeed, some historical events—no matter how vast or significant—seem destined to be forgotten. And World War II is full of them.

Let's say you are launching a complex amphibious invasion of an enemy-held …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/no-respect.htm/feed 4 Typo http://www.historynet.com/typo.htm http://www.historynet.com/typo.htm#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:28:12 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687970 I am all thumbs. Put me at a computer keyboard, and I am trouble. I am the lord of the typo. Put my on an iPhone and things get exponentially worse. Put me on an iPhone with that quaint function …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/typo.htm/feed 2 Oh What a Lucky Man, III http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-iii.htm http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-iii.htm#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:43:10 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687808 The theme of this column lately has been the way that Americans are keeping alive the memory of World War II. The results are in, and the verdict is "wow!" The recent exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts of …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-iii.htm/feed 0 Oh What a Lucky Man, II http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-ii.htm http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-ii.htm#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:20:22 +0000 kholland http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687732     Last week I told you about the incredible photo exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. "War/Photography:  Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" was a jaw-dropper, featuring images that went well beyond the battlefield.  Photographs of …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-ii.htm/feed 1 Oh What a Lucky Man I Am http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-i-am.htm http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-i-am.htm#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:07:07 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687641 I've said it many times: I'm a lucky guy. Beautiful wife. Wonderful family. I get to live in Texas. (No offense to the other states. I've lived in a few and they're not bad at all.)

Another way I'm lucky …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/oh-what-a-lucky-man-i-am.htm/feed 3 Hollywood's War: Beginnings and Endings http://www.historynet.com/hollywoods-war-beginnings-and-endings.htm http://www.historynet.com/hollywoods-war-beginnings-and-endings.htm#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:29:33 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687511 I have been writing this column for years, and if your attention hasn't drifted, you probably know that I am not that fond of war movies. I say it every year at this time. Don't like them, don't watch them, …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/hollywoods-war-beginnings-and-endings.htm/feed 5 Unique: the Pacific War, Part 2 http://www.historynet.com/unique-the-pacific-war-part-2.htm http://www.historynet.com/unique-the-pacific-war-part-2.htm#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:51:44 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687486 Last week I made a startling claim about the uniqueness of the Pacific War.

Well, startling for me, anyway. I've come up in a school that distrusts the very word "unique." Most historians eschew the concept. Indeed, the very job …

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After all, everyone knows that nothing is completely unique. Human beings have been living on planet earth for a long time, and every historical event hearkens back to something that happened …

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