History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » People http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Greatest Story Often Told: Rick Atkinson's Guns at Last Light http://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-story-often-told-rick-atkinsons-guns-at-last-light.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-greatest-story-often-told-rick-atkinsons-guns-at-last-light.htm#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 17:52:27 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13688423 THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT 
The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
By Rick Atkinson. 896 pp.
Henry Holt and Co., 2013. $40.

For almost 15 years—three times longer than World War II lasted—Pulitzer winner Rick Atkinson has toiled with …

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Life isn't fair, and neither is history. Indeed, some historical events—no matter how vast or significant—seem destined to be forgotten. And World War II is full of them.

Let's say you are launching a complex amphibious invasion of an enemy-held …

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]]> http://www.historynet.com/typo.htm/feed 2 Torpedo Junction http://www.historynet.com/torpedo-junction.htm http://www.historynet.com/torpedo-junction.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:23:05 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687569 http://www.historynet.com/torpedo-junction.htm/feed 1 Ridgway: Iron Man at the Front http://www.historynet.com/ridgway-iron-man-at-the-front.htm http://www.historynet.com/ridgway-iron-man-at-the-front.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:22:30 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687600

Acts of great courage in war aren't limited to the battlefield. One little-known incident during World War II defined Major General Matthew B. Ridgway as a commander of unrivaled courage when he laid his career on the line at a …

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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 Conversation with Matthew Brzezinski http://www.historynet.com/conversation-with-matthew-brzezinski.htm http://www.historynet.com/conversation-with-matthew-brzezinski.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:17:53 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687657

'Writing this book," Matthew Brzezinski declares, "made me grasp the horrors of the situation's choices." The "situation" is the Nazi-ruled Warsaw Ghetto, portrayed with gritty detail in Isaac's Army. From 1940 on, a 24-year-old Zionist youth leader named Isaac …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/conversation-with-matthew-brzezinski.htm/feed 0 A Young Pilot's Surprising Political Leanings http://www.historynet.com/a-young-pilots-surprising-political-leanings.htm http://www.historynet.com/a-young-pilots-surprising-political-leanings.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:17:08 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687665 Branded a left-wing peacenik during his 1972 presidential campaign against incumbent Richard M. Nixon, Senator George S. McGovern lost that race in a landslide, winning only Massa-chusetts and Washington, D.C. A major reason for his defeat was his opposition to …

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Of all the places I've been, the port of Archangel in the north of Russia is the least romantic. The climate is terrible—cold and dank most of the year—and ships lie rusting in the harbor. From the drunks on the …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/no-regrets.htm/feed 0 ....the Omaha Beach Landing Had Failed? http://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:15:11 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687671 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 …

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