The daring seaborne operation was planned as a way of outflanking German strength on Italy’s Gustav Line and swiftly capturing Rome, but almost nothing went according to plan.
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Battle of Chalons: Attila the Hun Versus Flavius Aetius
Flavius Aetius’ confrontation with Attila the Hun in AD 451 is widely regarded as a turning point in history, but it may only have hastened the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Book Review: British Museum Souvenir Guide (John Julius Norwich) : BH
British Museum Souvenir Guide by John Julius Norwich, published by British Museum Publications Ltd., […]
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Book Review: The City of London Churches, A Pictorial Rediscovery
The City of London Churches: A Pictorial Rediscovery, by Derek Kendall, The Royal Commission […]
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Book Review: The First Punic War (J.F. Lazenby) : MH
The First Punic Warby J.F. Lazenby, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto,Calif., 1996, $45 (hardcover), […]
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First in America’s Skies
President George Washington watched aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard make the first aerial voyage in the New World.