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World War II, World War II Magazine
A NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH I just finished the article on Leonard Birchall in the December 2005 issue (“Personality”) and was surprised to read how important Sir Winston Churchill felt the actions of one individual were in World War II....
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World War II Magazine
In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War by David Reynolds; Random House, New York, 2005, $35. He was a giant of a man, a larger-than-life figure with an insatiable appetite for fine cognac (although...
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World War II Magazine
In the long history of military conflict, no war ended quite like World War II. Rather than punish outright both the leaders and citizens of the vanquished nations—as had been customary in most previous global clashes—the victorious...
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World War II Magazine
The inexhaustible Churchill seemed to comprise many individuals—all of them determined to prevail...
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MHQ Magazine
When it came to military and diplomatic matters, these six people were able to accurately foretell the future....
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MHQ Magazine
Superiors branded him “difficult.” Yet Percy Hobart was just the kind of genius the Allies desperately needed....
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Military History Magazine
In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders...
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World War II Magazine
There was no love lost when Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill locked horns at the Allies’ first ever wartime summit in Tehran...
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Military History, MH Interviews
In his latest work the British author chronicles the World War II exploits of the clandestine Special Operations Executive...
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World War II Magazine
As World War II dawned, Great Britain had already lost an important battle, one that would have costly consequences. In a moving Victory in Europe speech on May 13, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill could not restrain his...
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World War II Magazine
Warlords: An Extraordinary Recreation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin By Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts. 358 pp. Da Capo Press, 2007. $16.95. The action movie would not exist without...
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MHQ Magazine
When the British prime minister ordered an invasion of Iraq in 1941, it was neither the first nor last time a Western power meddled in Mesopotamian affairs. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had many compelling arguments for...
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Military History, MH Letters
Readers sound off about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Winston Churchill, Choctaw code talkers and Civil War coal torpedoes...
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MHQ Magazine
A salute, of sorts, to iconic military headgear...
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Military History Magazine
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874–1945 by Carlo D’Este, HarperCollins, New York, 2008, $39.95. Winston Churchill was a man of war. That may shock those who best know the diplomat and the politician, the writer and the...
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World War II Magazine
One of the biggest threats to D-Day success came from the Allied side—with the shortage of a key ship...
