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The Death of the Kursk Offensive: Sympathy for the Devil

Robert M. Citino | Published: March 31, 2011 at 10:07 am
What killed Operation Citadel? A lot of things.

What If America's "Arsenal of Democracy" Had Failed to Materialize?

Mark Grimsley | Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
No number of errors in mobilization could have throttled the increase in U.S. production, but serious blunders were still possible.

Smith vs. Smith

Sharon Tosi Lacey | Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:51 am
When a Marine general fired an Army general on Saipan, all hell broke loose

Triumph at Kasserine Pass

Stephen Budiansky | Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:51 am
How the U.S. Army wrung victory from one of their worst defeats

Rumsfeld's Challenge to Johnson on the Vietnam War

Vietnam magazine | Published: March 29, 2011 at 5:57 pm
After a briefing with LBJ on Vietnam in 1966, Rep. Rumsfeld wrote that the president was “up and down like a yo-yo”

Where is General George Meade

Tom Huntington | Published: March 29, 2011 at 1:46 pm
How Union General George G. Meade became the Rodney Dangerfield of the Civil War

Secession - Revisionism or Reality

Harold Holzer | Published: March 14, 2011 at 10:01 am
Secession fever revisited We can take an honest look at history, or just revise it to make it more palatable Try this version of history: 150 years ago this spring, North Carolina and Tennessee became the final two Southern states …

Walmart Withdraws from Wilderness Battlefield

Tim and Elizabeth Rowland | Published: March 14, 2011 at 9:59 am
Preservationists win Wilderness battle Rather than face what would likely have been an image-bruising court fight, Walmart has abandoned plans to build a retail supercenter on the doorstep of the Wilderness battlefield in central Virginia. "This project has been controversial, …

Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry

Published: March 14, 2011 at 9:58 am
Jackson, Johnston and conflicting interests The fate of strategic Harpers Ferry hung on the leadership styles of two Southern commanders Confederate Battery at Harper's Ferry. Courtesy of the Harper's Ferry National Historic Park. Ten weeks before earning the sobriquet "Stonewall" …

The Traitor Who Inspired His Country

Stephen Budiansky | Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Hotzumi Ozaki, the only Japanese to be formally tried and hanged for treason during the war, became a role model for his countrymen.

Conversation with Madhusree Mukerjee

Gene Santoro | Published: February 01, 2011 at 4:03 pm
The author of Churchill's Secret War discusses the wartime leader's fatal grip on India

'Germany at War' Encyclopedia - Call for Authors

Media Release | Published: January 18, 2011 at 2:04 pm
A call for writers to contribute to Germany at War, an encyclopedia project by ABC-Clio that covers German military history from the Thirty Years War to today's Bundeswehr.

Union Spy in Confederate Territory

Gavin Mortimer | Published: January 08, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Union agent Pryce Lewis had his share of close calls

Interview - Sydney Schanberg, author of Beyond the Killing Fields

Vietnam magazine | Published: December 13, 2010 at 11:37 am
Sidney Schanberg, a reporter and columnist after the Vietnam War, discusses his career and his efforts to report and investigate allegations that American POWs had knowingly been left behind in Laos by a Nixon administration desperate to end the war

Did the Bomb Ultimately Save Lives?

Max Gadney | Published: December 01, 2010 at 11:31 am
As U.S. forces neared Japan, casualties rose at an alarming rate.

Cry Havoc by Joseph Maiolo

Gene Santoro | Published: December 01, 2010 at 11:31 am
How the arms race drove the world to war.
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