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Caitlin Newman |
Published: November 27, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Pocket-sized books weren’t just an escape for American troops serving overseas: they were a reminder of what they were fighting for
Debra Newbold |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie's 242 portraits of U.S. soldiers who died in one week in Vietnam, an artistic undertaking inspired by the June 27, 1969, Life magazine cover and article, "Faces of …
Andrew Thundercloud, oral history |
Published: November 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm
As a Marine corpsman, Andrew Thundercloud kept a promise he made to himself when it was his turn to go home
Vietnam magazine |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:50 am
Vietnam magazine spoke with Lt. Gen. Christmas at his beloved Marine Corps museum about his life in Vietnam and as a Marine
Dennis Showalter |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:34 am
Demolishing the Myth
The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative
By Valeriy Zamulin. 672 pp.
Helion & Company, 2011. $69.95.
For anyone interested in the war between Russia and Germany, the battle of Prokhorovka …
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
His last letter home before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Andrew Curry |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:32 am
Enter the Wolf Pack's Baltic lair.
Duane Schultz |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:29 am
As the men of the Lost Battalion fought for their lives, a gutsy group of Japanese American GIs fought to save them.
Madhusree Mukerjee |
Published: September 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Churchill's friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister's full faith—even when he shouldn't have
Debra Newbold |
Published: September 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm
George Cressy, a Bronze Star recipient at Dak To who went on to write famously about the battle for Newsday in 1996, died on July 16, 2011, in Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 68. He began writing …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: September 20, 2011 at 8:50 am
OK, all you postmodernists, you intellectuals who think that there is no such thing as reality, that it is all about the narrative, that each participant in a historical event has a separate and equally valuable experience that is as …
Marc Leepson |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Jerry Lembcke examines how Jane Fonda came to symbolize treason in the eyes of Vietnam vets.
James Finnegan, oral history |
Published: September 12, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Dr. James Finnegan's service as a surgeon proved to be a powerful reminder that we don't have all the answers
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 22, 2011 at 9:31 am
We've been discussing the accepted "narrative" of the war, the ways that we Americans have tended to interpret it. Others have their own "histories" of World War II, and they can vary wildly by era, by place, by perspective. To …
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 …
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