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Reader Comments, MHQ Summer 2013

ehoward — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:29:18 +0000

The Fight Over Women in Combat

The article "Why Not Send Women to War" (Spring 2013) sparked a lively exchange at MHQmag.com. Some highlights:

Stalingrad (today's Volgograd) was taken by the Axis forces—and, somewhat later, retaken by Soviet reinforcements. …

MHQ Letters, Spring 2013

ehoward — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:29:15 +0000

Readers respond to MHQ's Winter 2013 issue: Custer's tactics, the My Lai massacre, and model generals

MHQ Reader Comments, Winter 2013

ehoward — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:51:05 +0000

Readers respond to MHQ's Autumn 2012 issue

MHQ Reader Comments: Rommel's Drive

ehoward — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:19:39 +0000

Readers respond to MHQ's Summer 2012 issue and the magazine's new print design and Kindle version

MHQ Reader Comments: Paratrooper Propaganda for Hitler's Assault on Crete, 1941

ehoward — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:02:20 +0000

Readers debate the identity of a German paratrooper featured on the cover of MHQ's Winter 2010 issue and the circumstances under which he was photographed.

MHQ Reader Comments: Casualty Figures from Ancient Historians

ehoward — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:01:26 +0000

An MHQ reader reconsiders the credibility of the troop numbers and casualty figures reported by Polybius for the battle of Cannae as presented in Adrian Goldsworthy's article, “Can the Counters Be Counted On?” (Autumn 2008).

MHQ Reader Comments: Origin of the Word “Deadline”

ehoward — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:49:35 +0000

An MHQ reader documents the origin of the word “deadline” at Andersonville during the Civil War.

MHQ Reader Comments: Republicans and Democrats in 1812

ehoward — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:06:49 +0000

While it is correct that one faction of the party founded by Jefferson and Madison would later give rise to the modern Democratic Party, “Republican” was what they most often called themselves during the period of the War of 1812.

MHQ Reader Comments: FDR’s Policy of Unconditional Surrender

ehoward — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:39:15 +0000

An MHQ reader takes issue with author Thomas Fleming's suggestion that Winston Churchill was dumbfounded when FDR announced his policy to demand unconditional surrender from the Germans.