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Avalanche: How Both Sides Lost at Salerno

Robert M. Citino | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Sometimes it's not whether you win or lose, but whether you wind up in a long, protracted struggle.

Mark W. Clark: A General Reappraisal

Robert M. Citino | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Does he really deserve to be exhibit A in the war's pantheon of bad commanders?

Rudolf Hess: Flight of Fancy

Peter Padfield | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Rudolf Hess’s peace mission to Britain was one of the war’s most astonishing events. Was the deputy führer a madman who acted alone, as many believe? Or did British Intelligence have a hand in his bizarre and fateful trip?

Review: Filming the Camps, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Gene Santoro | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:35 pm
FILMING THE CAMPS John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens From Hollywood to Nuremberg The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City. Through October 14, 2012. The 1945 Nuremberg Trials marked many firsts, including the first time movies were used as …

Book Review: Someone Talked!

Gene Santoro | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:34 pm
SOMEONE TALKED! By R. Conrad Stein. 146 pp. Chiron Books, 2011. $7.95. It's August 1944, and two 12-year-olds growing up in Chicago, Tony Avellini and Dan Zelinski, might have caught sight of a German saboteur. Stoked by ever-present war stories …

Book Review: China's Wings by Gregory Crouch

Richard R. Muller | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:28 pm
CHINA'S WINGS War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight By Gregory Crouch. 528 pp. Bantam, 2012. $30. The Shangri-La-ish dust jacket and breathless subtitle of China's Wings make it seem like a …

Conversation with Jean Edward Smith, Author of Eisenhower in War and Peace

Gene Santoro | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:27 pm
How the five-star general dealt with Churchill and Roosevelt, and managed all the alpha generals jockeying for position, all while running a war.

The Joy of Killing

Laurence Rees | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:24 pm
A counterintelligence officer explains why she pulled the trigger

An American Missionary Describes 'Beastly' Atrocities in Nanking

Andrew Carroll | Published: June 08, 2012 at 4:22 pm
A letter by Reverend James McCallum, written during the brutal beginning of Japanese occupation.

Irrational Actors: The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Robert M. Citino | Published: June 05, 2012 at 11:43 am
Japan's response to finding itself outnumbered, outproduced, and outclassed: Launching another offensive in late 1944.

Everybody Loves Lt. Dan - Gary Sinise

Roger L. Vance | Published: May 22, 2012 at 6:05 pm
While his role in Forrest Gump endeared Sinise to Vietnam vets, his compassion for them was stirred long before on a stage in Chicago

Army Spc. 4 Leslie Sabo Awarded Medal of Honor Posthumously in White House Ceremony on May 16

Vietnam magazine | Published: May 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Loaded with gear, infantryman Leslie Sabo poses with his M-60. (Photo: James Bemus)Leslie H. Sabo Jr., the nation's newest Medal of Honor recipient, died in a Cambodian jungle on May 10, 1970, after a daylong battle in which he …

My War - Painter James John Magner

James John Magner, oral history | Published: May 17, 2012 at 3:37 pm
As an artist, he understood that he would have to wade the rivers and face death to get beyond surface appearances

In remembrance of combat photographer Horst Faas, 1933-2012

Don North | Published: May 17, 2012 at 2:42 pm
In 2008, Horst Faas appeared at the Newseum in Washington to pay tribute to the photographers who went down in a helicopter over Laos. (Photo: Don North)In 1965 as a green kid with a $30 35mm Yashika and a fixed …

Requiem for a Vietnam War Reporter - George Esper, 1932-2012

Don North | Published: May 09, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Esper doggedly covered the war from 1965 to its end, as North Vietnamese soldiers shuttered his Saigon AP bureau

Let There Be Light: Admiral Mitscher’s Decision

Robert M. Citino | Published: May 02, 2012 at 5:09 pm
The most harrowing moments of the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot came after the battle. Plus: enter to win a copy of the Wehrmacht Retreats.
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