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  Classic Dispatches | Highway to Hell

  Michael Kelly went to war, as a journalist, on his own terms...

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  Behind the Lines | Torture by Water

  Throughout the ages, water-based forms of torture have gone by many euphemisms, but the intent has nearly always been the same...

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  Grounds for War

  A photojournalist’s quest to capture the world’s most historic battlefields. After a distinguished­ and death-defying career documenting conflicts around the world, Paris-based photojournalist Yan Morvan decided to seek out the scenes...

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  Dunkirk and the Dunes

  As France and Spain vied for the key port of Dunkirk in early 1658, England unexpectedly held the balance...

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  Classic Dispatches: Terror in the Sky

  As a journalist, William G. Shepherd had a knack for being in—or getting to—the right place at the right time. On the afternoon of March 25, 1911, for example, he was walking through Washington Square in lower Manhattan when he noticed...

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  Darby’s Shooter

  Before he was the “Chronicler of Cool,” photographer Phil Stern fought with the U.S. Army’s 1st Ranger Battalion...

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  Weapons Check | Walther P-38

  The Walther P-38 arguably supplants even the infamous Luger P.08 as the definitive German pistol of the 20th century. Its development began in the early 1930s, when a cash-strapped German army looked to replace the elegant but expensive...

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  The Man Who Would Be President

  General Douglas MacArthur craved power. He also despised Franklin D. Roosevelt. So in 1944 he secretly plotted to run against his own commander in chief...