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Jeffrey G. Barlow |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Neptune’s Inferno
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
By James D. Hornfischer. 544 pp.
Bantam Books, 2011. $30.
Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow
Geoffrey Parker |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 6:41 pm
A renowned historian looks at the greatest conflicts from ancient times to World War II.
Jennifer E. Berry |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 5:54 pm
The French army was in a precarious position in the summer of 1915, as its offensives bogged down and casualties skyrocketed. L’Illustration, a popular image-driven newspaper, encouraged renowned Paris-based photojournalist Léon Gimpel to find subjects worthy of color photographs—a rarity at a time when the heavy equipment and complex processing of color newspaper photography meant few photographers could shoot for that medium. Inspired by poster artist Francisque Poulbot’s comic and colorful illustrations of children playing at war, Gimpel went to work.
Thomas Fleming |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 5:50 pm
The most famous collision in U.S. Navy history occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, a hot, moonless night in the Pacific. Patrol Torpedo boat 109 was idling in Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. The 80-foot craft had orders to attack enemy ships on a resupply mission. With virtually no warning, a Japanese destroyer emerged from the black night and smashed into PT-109, slicing it in two and igniting its fuel tanks.
Published: February 08, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Photographs of John F. Kennedy during World War II.
Drew Lindsay |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 2:41 pm
For months the Confederates trained dozens of guns on Fort Sumter. But no one seemed eager for war.
Drew Bratcher |
Published: February 08, 2011 at 2:35 pm
The country’s bloodiest war has been captured in novels, memoirs, and battle narratives. Here are 10 classics
Published: December 30, 2010 at 11:19 am
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MHQ |
Published: November 11, 2010 at 1:24 pm
"Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength." Winston Churchill - May 13, 1940
C. G. Sweeting |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Anything about military history you’ve always wanted to know? Submit your question to us at MHQeditor@weiderhistory.com. You can even suggest the expert you’d like us to query. Q: What is the origin of the belts that United States Navy and Army officers have been wearing since at least the Civil War?
John Chettle |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm
As a young soldier-newspaperman at the turn of the 20th century, Winston Churchill found himself appalled—and fascinated—by war. His experiences were given to few young men, and few young men would so comprehensively have understood them and put them to such world-shaping use some 40 years on.
James Creelman |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:47 pm
American reporter James Creelman, on assignment for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, describes Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in October and November of 1894 on the road to the shocking massacre at Port Arthur.
Christine Ammer |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:23 pm
The noun tycoon had a quite different meaning during the war. It signified a top leader, and was applied to Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, among others. Christine Ammer has edited encyclopedias and written several dozen wordbooks, including Have a Nice Day—No Problem! A Dictionary of Clichés (1992).
Rod Paschall |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:17 pm
In Norway in 1940, Hitler and Churchill gamble their careers and the futures of their respective countries. The campaign was a fiasco for Churchill, yet it propelled him into office and ensured Hitler would fail to turn back the D-Day invasion four years later.
O'Brien Browne |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Despite its enduring fame, the Red Baron’s slow, crash-prone plane was no great fighting machine.
O'Brien Browne |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:05 pm
During the September Campaign in Poland in 1939, no mounted Polish cavalrymen ever charged at German tanks with lances, but their story is on of bravery and professionalism in the face of overwhelming odds, and it clearly indicates that far from being a military anachronism, the Polish lancer was a tough and dangerous adversary.
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