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In an ambitious and provocative work that spans 25 centuries, Andrew Lambert, a professor of history at King’s College, London, draws a sharp distinction between seapower states and sea power (two words) states. The former, he writes,...
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Mary Borden was born in 1886 with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth: Her father, a prominent Chicago lawyer, had struck it rich as one of the lead investors in a fabulously successful silver-mining venture in Colorado. After...
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In 1782, just a few years into its nationhood, the United States was forced to grapple with the issue of revenge as an instrument of war...
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In 1952 the widow of George S. Patton Jr. provided an intimate glimpse into the legendary general’s thinking. It began with the classics, for the Pattons felt that life was too short to get one’s education unless one started early, and...
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In 1918 Captain George S. Patton Jr. sent his wife, Beatrice, a blow-by-blow account of his role in the Saint-Mihiel offensive...
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Lethal diseases have ravaged militaries across the millennia. Enemy No. 1: poor sanitation...
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Michael Kelly went to war, as a journalist, on his own terms...
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Throughout the ages, water-based forms of torture have gone by many euphemisms, but the intent has nearly always been the same...
