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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Are you a glow-worm?...
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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Military History Featured, Military History, Military History Magazine
The Italian frogman earned his nation’s highest award - an honor bestowed on him by the hand of his enemy...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Ritchie is teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer, acclaimed producer of “Top Gun,” to bring the exploits of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to the big screen...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
It’s the celebrity gossip military historians didn’t know they needed — until now.
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Prohibition—what started as a sincere attempt to curb domestic violence and uphold the “traditional” values of the home quickly descended into the strangest, nay, darkest 13-year period in American history. However, the 18th...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Winston and whisky. Perhaps one of the most iconic pairings of the 20th century. This past Tuesday, one art collector certainly thought so, as one of Winston Churchill’s paintings, ingeniously entitled “Jug with Bottles,” sparked a...
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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Military History Featured, Mag: Military History Hero, Military History Magazine
An engineering triumph developed under strict wartime secrecy, the proximity fuze vastly increased the lethality
of anti-aircraft guns and field artillery. ...
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American History
Historian Preston argues that Stalin did not actually make patsies of Roosevelt and Churchill...
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Military History
When Western powers allowed Nazi Germany to partition Czechoslovakia with the Munich Agreement of 1938, the country fell under the dominion of shadowy criminal mastermind Reinhard Heydrich, known as the “Butcher of Prague.”...
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In a special three-part series for the month of April, the International Churchill Society has been hosting live events with prominent historians, generals, and authors to discuss all things Winston Churchill. This past Friday, April 17,...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
The Queen, speaking from a pre-recorded message shot at Windsor Castle, relayed her own experiences from World War II to rally the nation....
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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....
