Homer Lea, a frail American hunchback, helped make China a republic and prophesied the apocalyptic convulsions of two world wars.
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Mexican Revolution: Battle of Celaya
General Alvaro Obregon and his Constitutionalist army proved more than a match for Pancho Villa’s undefeated Division del Norte in the April 1915 battles at Celaya.
Marine Alternative to Search and Destroy
The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Program (CAP) just might have been a viable alternative to MACV’s ‘big battalions’ strategy.
Betrayal at Ebenezer Creek
Trapped between charging Rebels and a deadly flooded creek, thousands of fugitive slaves watched in horror as the Union army abandoned them. Then came catastrophe–and excuses.
Tet Offensive: Inside MACV Headquarters
As General William Westmoreland’s chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter ‘Dutch’ Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war.
The Alamo: 13 Days of Glory
Mysteries, myths and Texas-size legends surround the fortified Spanish mission that became a shrine after a few good men valiantly defended it to the death 160 years ago.
Book Review: April 1865: The Month That Saved America (by Jay Winik): CWT
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, by Jay Winik, HarperCollins, New York, 520 […]
Book Review: Doughboy’s Diary (by Chester Baker) : MH
Doughboy’s Diary, by Chester Baker, Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, Pa., 1998, $24.95. World War […]
Book Review: Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam’s Hearts and Minds (Richard A. Hunt) : VN
Winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of the South Vietnamese people was supposedly the goal […]
Book Review: Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Roy Morris, Jr.) : WW
Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, by Roy Morris, Jr., Crown Publishers, New York, […]