History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » World War II Time Travel http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Time Travel: Normandy's Contested Landing Beaches http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-normandys-contested-landing-beaches.htm http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-normandys-contested-landing-beaches.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:21:44 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687659  

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the sky above the Normandy market town of Sainte-Mère-Église quietly grew thick with billowing silk as American paratroopers dropped into the night ahead of the long-expected Allied invasion of Europe; by …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-normandys-contested-landing-beaches.htm/feed 1 Corregidor: Return to the Rock http://www.historynet.com/corregidor-return-to-the-rock.htm http://www.historynet.com/corregidor-return-to-the-rock.htm#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:13:05 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686666 The fading beams of my flashlight sweep the cavernous reinforced concrete laterals of Malinta Tunnel, barely illuminating my passage. Vintage wires and fixtures, timber trusses, and piles of rubble flare into focus in fleeting camera flashes, then vanish, frustratingly, in …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/corregidor-return-to-the-rock.htm/feed 0 Travel: Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia http://www.historynet.com/travel-khalkhin-gol-mongolia.htm http://www.historynet.com/travel-khalkhin-gol-mongolia.htm#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:08:17 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686314 http://www.historynet.com/travel-khalkhin-gol-mongolia.htm/feed 4 Time Travel: Resurgent Prague http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-resurgent-prague.htm http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-resurgent-prague.htm#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:26:22 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685879

On March 15, 1939, German troops marched through Prague's historic Wenceslas Square and occupied what was left of the Czechoslovak Republic—only six months after British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had bartered the Sudetenland to Adolf Hitler for "peace in …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-resurgent-prague.htm/feed 0 Travel to the Fall of Singapore http://www.historynet.com/travel-to-the-fall-of-singapore.htm http://www.historynet.com/travel-to-the-fall-of-singapore.htm#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:49:53 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685183

Soon after my arrival on steamy Singapore, I swore I heard bagpipes—faint, haunting skirls that, in my mind, were fading echoes from the past. The scenery, the tropical weather, the history of the island—all invoked in me a strange …

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Jamaica is best known for rum, reggae music, and its beach scene, but the easygoing Caribbean island had its share of wartime activity and intrigue. During the war there were at least a dozen major American military bases in …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/jamaica-u-boats-rum-and-refugees.htm/feed 2 Hong Kong: A Lost Battle Found http://www.historynet.com/hong-kong-a-lost-battle-found.htm http://www.historynet.com/hong-kong-a-lost-battle-found.htm#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:50:21 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684649 http://www.historynet.com/hong-kong-a-lost-battle-found.htm/feed 1 Time Travel: Kiel http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-kiel.htm http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-kiel.htm#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:32:29 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684276 http://www.historynet.com/time-travel-kiel.htm/feed 3 Storming the Beach Town http://www.historynet.com/storming-the-beach-town.htm http://www.historynet.com/storming-the-beach-town.htm#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:36:59 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683788 http://www.historynet.com/storming-the-beach-town.htm/feed 3 Lisbon: Harbor of Hope and Intrigue http://www.historynet.com/lisbon-harbor-of-hope-and-intrigue.htm http://www.historynet.com/lisbon-harbor-of-hope-and-intrigue.htm#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:55:53 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683579 http://www.historynet.com/lisbon-harbor-of-hope-and-intrigue.htm/feed 0