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Military History Magazine
British army Lance Corporal William Harold Coltman received his nation’s highest award for combat valor while serving on the Western Front in 1918. Like U.S. Army Corporal Desmond Doss in the next world war, Coltman was a pacifist who...
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Military History, MH Issues
The July 2018 issue features a cover story about the proliferation of fragging incidents during the Vietnam War...
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Military History, MH Letters
Readers sound off about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Winston Churchill, Choctaw code talkers and Civil War coal torpedoes...
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Military History Magazine
As Chinese citizens and foreigners alike fled Nanking in 1937, correspondent C. Yates McDaniel stayed behind to report on the Japanese wrath...
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Military History Magazine
During the British monarch’s six-decade reign a wave of fanatical Islamic uprisings threatened to sunder her global empire...
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Military History Magazine
The Belgian market town of Bastogne sits astride seven roads in the midst of the Ardennes Forest. The Ardennes comprises thick stands of fir and pine trees, gorges, brambled hills and rolling plateaus. Roads are at a premium here, vital...
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Military History Magazine
Bunker Hill Museum Charlestown, Mass. On June 17, 1775, vicious fighting broke out on Breed’s Hill in Charlestown, Mass. The Battle of Bunker Hill was one of the most significant events of the Revolutionary War. From a hastily...
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Military History Magazine
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 by Max Hastings, Knopf, New York, 2008, $35. Max Hastings was a premier 20th century war correspondent. As a military historian he adds to those writing skills and nose for a story a penetrating...
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Military History Magazine
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare by Activision, 2007, $59.99. This contemporary warfare shooter trades in the franchise’s flak jackets for ghillie suits and its binoculars for red dot laser scopes. Players choose from the British G36c...
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Military History Magazine
Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the 20th Century by Michael Howard, Continuum, New York, 2007, $37.71. Michael Howard writes about what history suggests with regard to the present and the future—perhaps a...
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Military History Magazine
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 by Rick Atkinson, Holt, 2007, $35. Do we really need another book about the World War II campaigns in Sicily and Italy? In this case, the answer is an emphatic yes. If you’ve...
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Military History Magazine
Some were found lying alive with their thighs and hams cut, laying bare their necks and throats, bid them drain the blood that remained in them. Some were found with their heads plunged into the earth…having suffocated themselves by...
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Military History Magazine
In 1187 Saladin’s Muslim armies drove the Latin Crusaders from the Middle East. On July 4, 1187, the Crusader army in the Latin East, led by Guy of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem, ceased to exist. Saladin’s Muslim armies slaughtered them...
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Military History Magazine
How the trials of Alfred Dreyfus split an army—and then a nation. The nightmare of Captain Alfred Dreyfus began at 8 a.m. on October 15, 1894, when the 35-year-old artillery officer arrived at the French War Ministry on Paris’ rue...
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Military History Magazine
Since the invention of the long rifle, snipers have made a tactical difference. In March 2002, during early combat operations in Afghanistan, a Canadian sniper shot and killed an al Qaeda fighter at the remarkable range of 2,430 meters....
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Military History Magazine
Staff Sgt. Drew Dix, U.S. Army Medal of Honor Chau Doc Province, Republic of Vietnam Jan. 31, 1968 to Feb. 1, 1968 Drew Dix, the first U.S. Army Special Forces noncommissioned officer to receive the Medal of Honor, was sent to South...
