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Thomas entered the wood a promising noncommissioned officer, he left it a proven leader, who would someday rise to the highest echelons of the U.S. Marine Corps. EAGER TO HAVE U.S. MARINES fight in World War I as part of General...
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Few firearms in history have achieved the notoriety of the Maschinengewehr 42, a general-purpose machine gun designed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Allied...
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“I was soon alongside of the chap who had wounded me. Raising myself in the strirrups, I shot him through the head.” Years before he would be known to millions of Americans simply as “Buffalo Bill,” William F. Cody (1846–1917)...
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Harry S. Truman’s distinguished biographer recounts events surrounding the headline that stunned the world. IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ARMS, few personal showdowns have been quite so freighted with consequence as the...
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Hugo Grotius and Emmerich de Vattel laid the intellectual groundwork for the modern concept of lawful warfare. The idea that warfare should be regulated or restrained by a code of conduct of some kind is sometimes assumed to be fairly...
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In 1863 a veteran newspaper correspondent defied a Union general’s order. He was court-martialed for the transgression. In late December 1862, Major General William T. Sherman opened the campaign to capture the fortified Confederate city...
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The author, who spent almost four years as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, asks a question that may have only partial answers: Why do men survive? When you...
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In 1914 Winston Churchill created the Royal Naval Division, whose men would fight as infantry in some of the fiercest battles of World War I. AFTER THE VIRTUAL DECIMATION of the regular British Army at the Marne and Ypres in 1914,...
