History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Foreign Affairs http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 26 May 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 Four Days in December: Germany's Path to War With the U.S. http://www.historynet.com/four-days-in-december-germanys-path-to-war-with-the-u-s.htm http://www.historynet.com/four-days-in-december-germanys-path-to-war-with-the-u-s.htm#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:22:57 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686560 http://www.historynet.com/four-days-in-december-germanys-path-to-war-with-the-u-s.htm/feed 2 Ugly: A Last Note on the Ethiopian Campaign http://www.historynet.com/ugly-a-last-note-on-the-ethiopian-campaign.htm http://www.historynet.com/ugly-a-last-note-on-the-ethiopian-campaign.htm#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:30:59 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686887 Over the last few weeks, I've been writing about the Italian campaign in Ethiopia (1935–36), one of the many wars between the two world wars. We often speak of the "interwar" period, but in fact it was chock full …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/ugly-a-last-note-on-the-ethiopian-campaign.htm/feed 6 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 One Tough Campaign http://www.historynet.com/one-tough-campaign.htm http://www.historynet.com/one-tough-campaign.htm#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:48:18 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686660 Last week I had some fun here, talking about a mighty warlord of the 1930s deciding to launch a war against a smaller and weaker adversary, and in the process precipitating World War II. Trying to be clever, I saved …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/one-tough-campaign.htm/feed 2 Review: Ben Macintyre's Double Cross http://www.historynet.com/review-ben-macintyres-double-cross.htm http://www.historynet.com/review-ben-macintyres-double-cross.htm#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:03:31 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686372 Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By Ben Macintyre. 416 pp.
Crown, 2012. $26.

While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept the bulk of their forces north of the Seine River, …

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The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang. 314 pp.
Basic, new edition 2012. $15.99.

This passionate book, recently reissued, is bristling with facts, figures, and the memories of witnesses. They put flesh on …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/review-the-rape-of-nanking-second-edition.htm/feed 8 In Defense of… Italian Coastal Divisions? http://www.historynet.com/in-defense-of-italian-coastal-divisions.htm http://www.historynet.com/in-defense-of-italian-coastal-divisions.htm#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:12:41 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686306 http://www.historynet.com/in-defense-of-italian-coastal-divisions.htm/feed 3 Review - Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam http://www.historynet.com/review-embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam.htm http://www.historynet.com/review-embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam.htm#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:48:46 +0000 dnewbold http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685860 http://www.historynet.com/review-embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam.htm/feed 0 What If the Germans Had Captured Moscow in 1941? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-germans-had-captured-moscow-in-1941.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-germans-had-captured-moscow-in-1941.htm#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:32:03 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685903 One of the classic "what ifs" of the Second World War centers on how—or if—the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, code-named Operation Barbarossa, could have achieved a quick victory. Hitler certainly believed that it could. …

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