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Military History, MH Issues
The May 2018 issue features a cover story about the bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War...
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Military History, MH Letters
Readers sound off about the World War II Civilian Pilot Volunteers and recognition of Filipinos' wartime service...
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Military History Magazine
In the closing days of World War I U.S. commanders tangled their forces in a costly race toward a pointless objective...
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Military History Magazine
In the marketplace within the gray walls of Rouen, Normandy, on May 30, 1431, in the shadows of the cathedral and guild shops, a harsh spectacle held the attention of the populace. A 19-year-old peasant girl was to be burned at the stake....
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Military History Magazine
In 168 BC Roman legionaries and Macedonian phalangites fought to decide once and for all who would rule the ancient Mediterranean...
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Military History Magazine
Western warfare that united Greece and enabled his son Alexander to conquer the world. The full moon cast long shadows across the 3,000 dead and wounded sprawled in grotesque piles throughout the meadow. Moans disturbed the night’s...
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Military History Magazine
Are the Israel Defense Forces really the world’s best army—or have they fought nothing but bush-league opponents? Commenting on the 19th century Confederation Helvetica, Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich reportedly observed...
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Military History Magazine
442nd Regimental Combat Team U.S. Army Multiple awards Europe 1943–45 Camp Darby is a tiny U.S. Army post just outside Livorno on Italy’s Adriatic coast. Its central square is dedicated to Private Masato “Curly” Nakae, who earned...
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Military History Magazine
Renowned for his pioneering research into the role polar regions play in global climate change, Dr. Alfred S. McLaren is also a noted undersea explorer who has dived on such historically important wrecks as Titanic and Bismarck. In his...
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Military History Magazine
On June 7, 1942, Major Matsutoshi Hozumi led some 1,200 men of the Japanese Army North Seas Detachment ashore on barren and perpetually fogbound Attu, the westernmost of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. It was the first enemy force to occupy...
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Military History Magazine
How crazy was the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction? Turns out, it was a surprisingly good idea. Few concepts in military strategy are more puzzling than the notion of mutually assured destruction. More than frightening, it...
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Military History Magazine
John Churchill rose from modest means to become first Duke of Marlborough and the greatest general of his time. On the morning of August 13, 1704, an English general stood on a low hill overlooking a nondescript Bavarian village on the...
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Military History Magazine
War gave the legendary novelist his best stories—and a lifetime of trouble. Greg Clark didn’t believe the war stories told by the American kid who’d wandered into his cluttered Toronto office looking for work. The tall, beefy lad...
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Military History Magazine
Major Charles L. Kelly U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross Vietnam, July 1, 1964 Dustoff. The very term conjures images of unarmed helicopter ambulances swooping down into hotly contested landing zones (LZs) under intense enemy...
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Military History Magazine
Over the course of writing 10 books —from through last year’s Night Soldiers Spies of (1988) Warsaw—American novelist Alan Furst has established himself as reigning master of a very specific genre of thriller. His books recount in...
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Military History Magazine
Following Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his generals began fighting over the empire he had created. Within a decade two leading factions emerged. The first, led by the grizzled Macedonian veteran Antigonus the One-Eyed and his...