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Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 05, 2011 at 10:02 am
Last week I spoke my piece about Edward R. Murrow and his I Can Hear it Now series. Ed's been dead a long time, but my hunch is that if he were alive, he wouldn't be doing a lot of …
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 11:01 am
In 1945, tens of millions of displaced persons, DPs, filled Germany and Western Europe. Many came from France, the Low Countries, and Italy, but most were Eastern Europeans. In The Long Road Home, historian Ben Shephard, who produced the documentary …
Andrew Curry |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:59 am
The assassination of a top Nazi in Czechoslovakia sparked swift, brutal Nazi reprisals. Was it worth it?
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:57 am
The Unknown War
WWII and the Epic Battles
of the Russian Front
Hosted by Burt Lancaster, 1978.
16.5 hours. $39.97.
In 1978, the Soviet Union's leaders were miffed by the landmark series The World At War, which they felt …
Published: July 29, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Utmost Savagery
The Three Days of Tarawa
Joseph H. Alexander (1995)
"My all-time favorite World War II book, the best minute-by-minute account of one of the bloodiest 72 hours in any war, anywhere. Getting into the minds of the men …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: July 28, 2011 at 9:41 am
I've been spending the past few columns discussing "the narrative" of World War II, our accepted version of the conflict, and how important it is to challenge it when we think it needs changing.
I've obviously touched a nerve. There …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: July 07, 2011 at 1:08 pm
A crazy question: what do we really KNOW about World War II?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the annual conference of the Society for Military History (SMH). The site this year was Lisle, Illinois, and the host …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 30, 2011 at 9:41 am
I'm sitting in LaGuardia Airport at the moment, returning home from a trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I'm proud to have a tie to the Academy: I taught there as a visiting professor during the 2008–09 …
HistoryNet staff |
Published: June 21, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Carlo D'Este chosen to receive 2011 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 20, 2011 at 1:44 pm
It sounds like a joke, I know: a conference of history professors. Oh yeah…that's a party. You better hunker down, locals. Lock your doors. Call the police!
But I just returned from a conference of history professors, the annual gathering …
William Marvel |
Published: June 13, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Trivia buffs beware: Galusha Pennypacker’s claim to being the Civil War’s youngest general doesn’t hold up
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 07, 2011 at 5:47 pm
We live in an anniversary culture, one in which the media never stops telling us Why This Day Is Special. I am writing this column on June 7th—did you know this was the day Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder …
Carlo D'Este |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:56 pm
This leader never asked his men to do something he wouldn't—and didn't—do himself.
Ronald H. Bailey and Susan Zimmerman |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:56 pm
The frantic preparation behind the legendary 30 seconds over Tokyo.
Gene Santoro |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Ten years ago, retired teacher Hope Hamilton began a memoir about her two Italian uncles that turned into a groundbreaking book. Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign 1942–43 is the first comprehensive exploration …
Gene Santoro |
Published: June 02, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Visit the gathering grounds of Europe's spies and refugees.
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