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The Other Richthofen
By James S. Corum
The Red Baron’s cousin, Wolfram, was the brilliant mind behind the world’s most lethal air force

Capture the Castle
By Stephen Harding
Americans and Germans joined forces in one of the war’s last—and most unusual—battles

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War Games
FA collection of childish pastimes has a chilling side

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By Ronald H. Bailey
Before the United States sent German POWs back home, it sent them back to school

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The adventures of innovative, daring, and deadly submarine commander Eugene Fluckey

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Once thought invincible, the German tank was done in by its own design

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The isolated desert air base that trained thousands of bomber crews, including the Enola Gay’s
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He was a former pornographer who conned a president
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