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....the Omaha Beach Landing Had Failed?

Mark Grimsley | Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Some Reversals of fortune in World War II would have had huge consequences and yet make for uninteresting counterfactuals. The shifts in outcome are simply too obvious. In the case of Operation Overlord, the June 1944 D-Day landings, an Allied …

Is it acceptable to specifically target military leaders for assassination?

Published: March 04, 2013 at 12:30 pm
 Aviation History Reader Poll The April 1943 mission to intercept and kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, set a military precedent. Do you think it is acceptable to specifically target military leaders like Yamamoto for …

Interview With Author-Historian Rick Atkinson

Published: February 28, 2013 at 11:39 am
Pulitzer Prize–winning author-historian Rick Atkinson has completed the final volume of his Liberation Trilogy, a history of the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II.

Military History - May 2013 - Letters From Readers

Published: February 27, 2013 at 6:33 pm
Readers' letters in the May 2013 issue of Military History sound off about the Iran–Iraq War, Gallipoli and a misplaced division.

World War I Intrigue: German Spies in New York!

Michael S. Neiberg | Published: February 27, 2013 at 4:40 pm
On the eve of America’s entry into World War I, saboteurs plotted—and carried out—attacks on the U.S. home front

Book Review: With Napoléon’s Guard in Russia, by Major Louis-Joseph Vionnet

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:39 pm
Jonathan North has translated and edited this firsthand French account of the Invasion of Russia during the Napoleonic wars.

Book Review: Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron, by Ronald D. Utt

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Ronald Utt has written a very readable account of the War of 1812, centered primarily on U.S. naval actions.

Book Review: Embers of War, by Frederik Logevall

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Frederik Logevall examines the critical period of regional and world tensions that flared up into America's Vietnam War.

Book Review: Stalin’s General, by Geoffrey Roberts

HistoryNet Staff | Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Geoffrey Roberts has written a well-researched, candid biography of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, an impressive if only intermittently sympathetic commander.

Extended Interview- Scholar Lien-Hang T. Nguyen: Hanoi's Secrets

Vietnam magazine | Published: February 25, 2013 at 5:53 pm
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, gives insight into the war's final chapter, in this interview with Vietnam magazine about her life and her work

Book Review: The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona, by Paul Lee Johnson

HistoryNet Staff | Published: January 31, 2013 at 11:52 am
Paul Lee Johnson delves into the background of the McLaury brothers, best known for dying at the hands of the Earps and Doc Holliday during that infamous 1881 Tombstone gunfight.

Book Review: Lincoln County, New Mexico, Tells Its Stories, edited by Marilyn Burchett

HistoryNet Staff | Published: January 31, 2013 at 11:40 am
Published by the Lincoln County Historical Society, this volume paints a fuller portrait of the denizens of a district primarily known for Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and an infamous range war.

DVD Review: Heaven’s Gate, by Criterion Collection

HistoryNet Staff | Published: January 31, 2013 at 11:06 am
Michael Cimino's plodding, sermonizing plot tests viewers' patience at times, though his cinematography offers some redemption for this new cut of Heaven's Gate.

Ultimate Warfare - A New Military Channel Series

Jay Wertz | Published: January 22, 2013 at 5:48 pm
The new Military Channel series "Ultimate Warfare" looks at pivotal battles from World War II to the present day.

Oh What a Lucky Man I Am

Robert M. Citino | Published: January 22, 2013 at 5:07 pm
I've said it many times: I'm a lucky guy. Beautiful wife. Wonderful family. I get to live in Texas. (No offense to the other states. I've lived in a few and they're not bad at all.) Another way I'm lucky …

Farewell to CSM Basil Plumley

Joseph L. Galloway | Published: January 08, 2013 at 4:29 pm
In tribute to Command Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, who died in October 2012, journalist Joe Galloway reflects on the three-war career of Plumley, with whom he forged a deep bond during the desperate 1965 fighting at Ia Drang
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