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Book Reviews: Churchill Biography and Hitler Analysis
Churchill, flaws and all; the political origins of Hitler; and the strange friendship of Mussolini and the German dictator
Churchill, flaws and all; the political origins of Hitler; and the strange friendship of Mussolini and the German dictator
A look into a stenographer's trial transcript, capturing how Abraham Lincoln’s sharp wit and folksy manner saved a client from the noose.
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier.
Progressive heroine's reputation suffered when she tried to sell pacifism as patriotism
Emperor's grandnephew campaigned for good government and civil rights
Vietnamese communist leader thought he could win Wilson's backing against the French
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
In "Glory in Their Spirit," author Sandra M. Bolzenius uncovers the tensions surrounding the military regarding race and sex during World War II.
On Jan. 2, 1777, within days of crossing the Delaware River, George Washington’s bedraggled Army again faced the enemy—this time across a New Jersey creek
Alfred Naujocks was an SS expert in dirty deeds done well, charged with making Poland appear a villain
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.
First president's muse and intellectual equal was a Philadelphia socialite