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Portfolio: Custer's Last Stand

Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:58 pm
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Portfolio: A Fashion Photographer in World War II

Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Cecil Beaton turned scenes from World War II into objets d’art

Portfolio: Cecil Beaton's World War II Photographs

Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:53 pm
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'Kick the Bully': Michael Collins Launches the 1921 Irish Rebellion

Max Boot | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Leading Irish rebels to victory over Britain in 1921, Michael Collins wrote the script for the Vietcong and Taliban

MHQ Reader Comments, Winter 2013

Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Readers respond to MHQ's Autumn 2012 issue

Fiction Excerpt: Arrows Over Poitiers, 1356

Bernard Cornwell | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:38 pm
How English archers devised a key strategy for victory at the Battle of Poitiers

The War List: Aces High

Jon Guttman | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Aviation expert Jon Guttman picks history's top 10 fighter pilots

Fighting Words: Vietnam Vernacular

Christine Ammer | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:37 pm
The origins of the terms "tunnel rats," "boat people," and more

The Gun That Should Have Changed Everything

Paul Lockhart | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:36 pm
An 1864 battle in Denmark foretold the advent of mechanized death

Korean 'Comfort Women': Japan's World War II Sex Slaves

K. M. Kostyal | Published: November 02, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women to be sex slaves in World War II

MHQ Reviews: Winter 2013

Published: October 16, 2012 at 3:06 pm
MAIN REVIEWS AND EXCERPTS The Commander, by Stephen Taylor, Reviewed by James L. Nelson The Man Who Saved The Union, by H.W. Brands, Reviewed by Stephen W. Sears The Missile Next Door, by Gretchen Heefner, Reviewed by Drew Lindsay  …

The Spanish Road to the Netherlands

Geoffrey Parker | Published: September 28, 2012 at 8:41 am
MHQ contributing editor Geoffrey Parker receives Heineken Prize for History on September 27

Rest in Peace? Bringing Home U.S. War Dead

Drew Lindsay | Published: September 18, 2012 at 3:31 pm
MHQ adds to PBS's "Death and the Civil War" with the history of a sacred tradition born of a bitter fight

Weapons Check: German Pistole 08 Luger (1908-1942)

Published: August 07, 2012 at 6:33 pm
(1) The front sight of the Luger is a simple inverted V blade that corresponds to an open V rear sight. At ranges over 50 yards, the Luger was one of the more accurate handguns of the early 20th century. …

Luger Photo Gallery

Published: August 07, 2012 at 6:23 pm
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1812 A Nation Emerges

Published: August 07, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Detail from "Battle of New Orleans," by Dennis Malone Carter, part of the new exhibit on the War of 1812 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has opened 1812: A Nation …
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