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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...
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World War II Magazine
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship By Martin Gilbert. 359 pp. Henry Holt & Co., 2007. $30. American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill By Anne Sebba. 378 pp. Norton, 2007. $26.95. Churchill, the prolific...
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World War II Magazine
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker. 576 pp. Simon & Schuster, 2008. $30. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World By...
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World War II Magazine
Britain’s last resort against a Nazi invasion was a guerrilla force trained to carry out suicidal missions of terror and sabotage. If Adolf Hitler’s threat to invade Great Britain in the summer of 1940 was a bluff, it was a bluff...
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World War II Magazine
Foreign Meddling, FBI Intrigue, political warfare: the 1940 U.S. presidential election had it all....
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World War II Magazine
In March 2006 a statue of Winston Churchill went on display in Norwich, England. It might have attracted little attention but for one disquieting detail: it showed the prime minister in a strait jacket. The statue was part of a campaign by...
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World War II Magazine
Winston Churchill: The Flawed Genius of World War II By Christopher Catherwood. 336 pp. Berkley, 2009. $26.95. Churchill’s first love, Pamela Plowden (later Lady Lytton), once said of him, “The first time you meet Winston you see all...
