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Louisa was 15 when the “revolution” began and her enthusiasm was undimmed when she wrote her memoirs 60 years later. She recalled the spectacle: houses illuminated with candles, bells ringing, tar barrels burning, flags waving. Most of all, she remembered the people. “I... |
0491ed7dddd93479adba0cc6de980347 | https://www.historynet.com/blood-bath-at-going-snake-the-cherokee-courtroom-shootout.htm | Blood Bath at Going Snake: The Cherokee Courtroom Shootout | Blood Bath at Going Snake: The Cherokee Courtroom Shootout
Zeke Proctor had nothing against Aunt Polly Beck Hildebrand. They were related, in fact, and Zeke didn’t want to kill her at all. Fact was, Zeke was after her man, Jim Kesterson, and Polly just got in the way of one of Zeke’s bullets. Kesterson made it to cover... |
cb59048426805fc7436d4d04d3e6da16 | https://www.historynet.com/blue-gray-perfect-southern-soldier.htm | Blue and Gray: Perfect Southern Soldier | Blue and Gray: Perfect Southern Soldier
Stonewall’s death confirmed his spot in the Rebel pantheon.
“Stonewall” Jackson inspirited the Confederate people on many occasions. He played a major role in celebrated victories while exhibiting the audacious generalship his fellow citizens craved. His 1862 Valley Campaign cata... |
2d0c116dada703fa54aa54befabc8d20 | https://www.historynet.com/boeing-b-52-stratosaurus.htm | The B-52 Is So Old It’s Nicknamed Stratosaurus | The B-52 Is So Old It’s Nicknamed Stratosaurus
Were it not for a 32-year-old U.S. Air Force colonel who happened to be an MIT-degreed engineer, the B-52 Stratofortress would have been a Tupolev Tu-95 Bear lookalike—a big, sweptwing bomber with four massive turboprops driving eight contrarotating propellers. That was th... |
b27ee98edec478d32f984fee98e7f122 | https://www.historynet.com/bofors-40mm-l60-anti-aircraft-gun-armed-forces-worldwide-cheered-this-pom-pom-replacement.htm | Bofors 40mm L/60 Anti-aircraft Gun: Armed Forces Worldwide Cheered This Pom-Pom Replacement | Bofors 40mm L/60 Anti-aircraft Gun: Armed Forces Worldwide Cheered This Pom-Pom Replacement
During World War II the Dutch-designed Bofors became the mainstay of anti-aircraft defense aboard U.S. Navy warships. (Illustration by Gregory Proch)
Having purchased Vickers 2-pounder pom-pom guns for its ships in 1922, the Swe... |
dacf0848be6d7d87e0af1917f09bb0e4 | https://www.historynet.com/bohemian-catastrophe.htm?epik=dj0yJnU9alFPemRrLTNlNEpnTmhzMmUtaWk1czQyam5LVThXWFImbj1sdkhVeEktRXRMOW5PNU5ycWVTQXN3Jm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRjNGWDB3 | Bohemian Catastrophe | Bohemian Catastrophe
Sparked by a revolt in Bohemia, the Thirty Years’ War should have ended on a mountaintop near Prague in 1620, yet it dragged on another 28 years
In 1618, on the cusp of the scientific revolution in Europe, both astronomy and astrology were respected scholarly pursuits, and the stars foretold war. T... |
47f6a677595b9b26a761860441a0e717 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-airmen-of-arnhem.htm | Book Review: Airmen of Arnhem | Book Review: Airmen of Arnhem
Airmen of Arnhem: The Heavy Lift Crews of Operation “Market,” by Martin W. Bowman, Pen & Sword Books, Philadelphia, Pa., and Barnsley, U.K., 2020, $42.95
Much has been written about the heroism of Allied airborne troops during Operation Market Garden, the ill-fated September 1944 attempt t... |
b422fc3d013d0079bea5d15dacd1a737 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-audacious-missions-of-world-war-ii.htm | Book Review: Audacious Missions of World War II | Book Review: Audacious Missions of World War II
Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents From the Time, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, U.K., 2020, $35
While war mostly entails long periods of waiting, there are those who prefer to take action regardless of how danger... |
5bd9ead90715fb2c8aef628de774f750 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-battle-for-skyline-ridge.htm | Book Review: Battle for Skyline Ridge | Book Review: Battle for Skyline Ridge
Battle for Skyline Ridge: The CIA Secret War in Laos, by James E. Parker Jr., Casemate Publishers, Havertown, Pa., 2019, $32.95
The Central Intelligence Agency’s proxy war in Laos amid the Vietnam War is a relatively untapped topic. Combining boots-on-the-ground accounts and dilige... |
b196765fff955e6a00331594faa03de7 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-battlefields-of-texas-by-bill-groneman-ww.htm | Book Review: Battlefields of Texas (by Bill Groneman) : WW | Book Review: Battlefields of Texas (by Bill Groneman) : WW
Battlefields of Texas, by Bill Groneman, Republic of Texas Press (an imprint of Wordware Publishing), Plano, Texas, 1998, $18.95 softcover.
The Alamo is the big one, of course, and that famous battlefield is author Bill Groneman’s specialty (Death of a Legend: ... |
ae7d32e66a020958c084c9e837a65a2b | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-becoming-hitler.htm | Book Review: Becoming Hitler | Book Review: Becoming Hitler
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi, by Thomas Weber, Basic Books, New York, 2017, $35
When and where did Adolf Hitler change from moody loner into messianic Führer? Some scholars maintain the transformative events occurred either during his childhood in Bavaria or during his World War I ... |
b9b888ff0e1a9d9b0218e69d38411c29 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-behind-winston.htm | Book Review: All Behind You, Winston | Book Review: All Behind You, Winston
All Behind You, Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition, 1940–45, by Roger Hermiston, Aurum Press, London, 2017, $29.99
On the back dust jacket of this important volume, eight mostly elderly, bald and paunchy men in business suits stare glumly at the camera. These gloomy gents are Brit... |
9530b1931c0a04510f391c4858c35976 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-billy-the-kid-a-readers-guide.htm | Book Review: Billy the Kid, A Reader’s Guide | Book Review: Billy the Kid, A Reader’s Guide
Billy the Kid: A Reader’s Guide, by Richard W. Etulain, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2020, $34.95
In 242 pages Dick Etulain can’t possibly guide readers to all the written and filmed works about Billy the Kid. But he certainly covers the essential ones, not only lis... |
fb6e382e9efdc31afe9c2d4e54750693 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-bloody-bill-anderson-the-short-savage-life-of-a-civil-war-guerrilla-by-albert-castel-and-thomas-goodrich-cwt.htm | Book Review: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich): CWT | Book Review: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich): CWT
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla, by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 800-732-3669, 192 pages, $24.95.
Amer... |
c72394f4ab0dd084e73721830ca40b86 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-chancellorsville-the-battle-and-its-aftermath-gary-w-gallagher-acw.htm | Book Review: Chancellorsville: The Battle and its Aftermath (Gary W. Gallagher) : ACW | Book Review: Chancellorsville: The Battle and its Aftermath (Gary W. Gallagher) : ACW
Chancellorsville: The Battle and its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher, University of North CarolinaPress, Chapel Hill, N.C., $29.95.
Mention the Battle of Chancellorsville to a group of Civil War buffs and a kaleidoscopic series... |
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Churchill: Warrior—How a Military Life Guided Winston’s Finest Hours, by Brian Lavery, Casemate Publishers, Oxford, U.K., 2017, $32.95
In the introduction to his new biography naval historian Brian Lavery carves a slot in the library of Churchill studies for this new volume on the great man’s mil... |
ca6b25df2b19af40a094c0c2fc690122 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-crucible-of-hell.htm | Book Review: Crucible of Hell | Book Review: Crucible of Hell
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945, by Saul David, Hachette Books, New York, 2020, $30
Iceberg, the operation to capture Okinawa, some 340 miles off the Japanese mainland, was among the largest, most grueling amphibious assaults in history, stretching 82 blood-soake... |
4c6e1c0d533b8bd13d6aec5c5572c766 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-crucible-of-war-the-seven-years-war-and-the-fate-of-empire-in-british-north-america-1754-1766-by-fred-anderson-mhq.htm | Book Review: Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 | Book Review: Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Fred Anderson has written as good a history of the Seven Years’ War in North America, commonly called the French and Indian War, as one can find. At some 835 pages excluding the index, it is not, however, for t... |
010434c036dbf047143b7285f6e6c1ab | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-crusaders.htm | Book Review: Crusaders | Book Review: Crusaders
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands, by Dan Jones, Penguin Books, N.Y., 2019, $30
In 1095 Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos appealed to Pope Urban II for aid against the attacking Muslim Turks. Present-day scholars, British historian Dan Jones among them, still struggle t... |
01df6be67185a3ad49ddd2047891ba20 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-dorwarts-history-of-the-oni.htm | Book Review: Dorwart’s History of the ONI | Book Review: Dorwart’s History of the ONI
Dorwart’s History of the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1865–1945, by Jeffrey M. Dorwart, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 2019, $62
Established in 1882, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) is the oldest intelligence agency in the United States. Based on exhaustive rese... |
b944283fd3e3dd26dabdf5fd1da3c6f9 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-enemies-neighbors.htm | Book Review: Enemies and Neighbors | Book Review: Enemies and Neighbors
Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917–2017, by Ian Black, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2017, $30
Britain’s celebrated 1917 Balfour Declaration promised a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, adding, “Nothing shall be done which may pre... |
a03a0beb70823fae71520e516f6f5b22 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-forever-forward-k-9-operations-in-vietnam-by-michael-lemish.htm | Book Review – Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, by Michael Lemish | Book Review – Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, by Michael Lemish
Their tours of duty would last about as long as they could still stand, and then they very rarely got to go home. Some 4,000 military working dogs served faithfully alongside their American masters, frequently engaging the enemy and ultimately ... |
5bf868e188b0db8165ccc6d85abdf4e2 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-ghost-ship-brooklyn.htm | Book Review: The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn | Book Review: The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution, by Robert P. Watson, Da Capo Press, Boston, Mass., 2017, $28
One of the less savory aspects of the American Revolutionary War was Britain’s shameful treatment of American prisoners of war. Far more POWs died ... |
6a28a8e1970fd3e6c27719bc472ed564 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-gibraltar.htm | Book Review: Gibraltar | Book Review: Gibraltar
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History, by Roy and Lesley Adkins, Viking, New York, 2018, $30
It may surprise students of American history to learn that one of the most strategically important campaigns of the Revolutionary War was conducted on the far side of the Atlantic Ocean—in fact... |
2150b7d08a8ec46798ef113a1bf053f6 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-glory-in-their-spirit-by-sandra-m-bolzenius.htm | Book Review: Glory in Their Spirit By Sandra M. Bolzenius | Book Review: Glory in Their Spirit By Sandra M. Bolzenius
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 9, 1945, 54 black enlistees in the Women’s Army Corps stationed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, reported to their barracks instead of their duty stations at Lovell Hospital South, where they worked as orderlies. For months, the women’s com... |
29924eb3cf50e607a8bff9c6f99f16bd | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-grunt-2.htm | Book Review: Grunt | Book Review: Grunt
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, by Mary Roach, New York, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2016, $26.95
Author Roach always seems to light on unexpectedly fascinating topics. Among her previous offerings are fascinating and highly readable books on corpses and their uses, digestion, life in o... |
77dfa781034d3bd79c0e0e093f320b01 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-guibert.htm | Book Review: Guibert | Book Review: Guibert
Guibert: Father of Napoléon’s Grande Armée, by Jonathan Abel, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2016, $34.95
Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert (1743–90), a premier military theorist of France’s pre-revolutionary ancien régime, is the subject of this first biography in English. Written... |
5a638da9a31524828350b69ac8625202 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hannibals-oath.htm | Book Review: Hannibal’s Oath | Book Review: Hannibal’s Oath
Hannibal’s Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome’s Greatest Enemy, by John Prevas, Da Capo Press, Boston, Mass., 2017, $28
In the preface of Hannibal’s Oath author John Prevas explains that his intent in writing this volume was to produce a readable and engaging biography of Hannibal for the lay ... |
14f416fd90a0f7e987c64f4f5b0e6ed4 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-he-rode-with-butch-and-sundance-by-mark-t-smokov.htm | Book Review: He Rode With Butch and Sundance, by Mark T. Smokov | Book Review: He Rode With Butch and Sundance, by Mark T. Smokov
He Rode With Butch and Sundance: The Story of Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan, by Mark T. Smokov, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2012, $29.95
Opening his biography of the outlaw known as Kid Curry, Mark Smokov writes, “Harvey Logan…has generally been po... |
2e200aa471302fe2f24e4fd17ca96642 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hitlers-great-gamble.htm | Book Review: Hitler’s Great Gamble | Book Review: Hitler’s Great Gamble
Hitler’s Great Gamble: A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa and the Axis Defeat in World War II, by James Ellman, Stackpole Books, Guilford, Conn., 2019, $34.95
What if Napoléon had B-17 Flying Fortresses at his disposal? What if Columbus had submarines? Counterfactual ... |
499505fa47d2a406a53bcd03264c0ba6 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hitlers-soldiers-the-german-army-in-the-third-reich.htm | Book Review: Hitler’s Soldiers-The German Army in the Third Reich | Book Review: Hitler’s Soldiers-The German Army in the Third Reich
Hitler’s Soldiers The German Army in the Third Reich By Ben H. Shepherd. 639 pp. Yale University Press, 2016. $35.
The German army had its ups and downs during World War II, winning a series of dramatic early victories and then suffering a parade of cata... |
94e300b676d181acfc3a9662ce7f7094 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-hoovers-secret-war-axis-spies.htm | Book Review: Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies | Book Review: Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies
HOOVER’S SECRET WAR AGAINST AXIS SPIES
FBI Counterespionage during World War II
By Raymond J. Batvinis. 312 pp. Kansas, 2014. $34.95.
DOUBLE AGENT
The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
By Peter Duffy. 338 pp. Scribner, ... |
4f6d7f2f6d8973912a795da70772f86f | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-ian-flemings-inspiration.htm | Book Review: Ian Fleming’s Inspiration | Book Review: Ian Fleming’s Inspiration
Ian Fleming’s Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books, by Edward Abel Smith, Pen & Sword, Yorkshire and Philadelphia, 2020, $34.95
In his first book, Active Goodness (2017), author Edward Smith studied efforts to save Czechoslovakian Holocaust refugees. The author’s second book is... |
e61c94ed882bff719f3bd9fe1c5e9975 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-james-longstreet-the-man-the-soldier-the-controversy-acw.htm | Book Review: James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy : ACW | Book Review: James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy : ACW
James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy, edited by R.L. DiNardo and Albert A. Nofi, Combined Publishing, Conshohocken, Pa., 1998, $27.95.
When former Confederate general James Longstreet died in 1904, there was no great outpourin... |
d5a370582dbf1882d42640c481f2742e | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-january-moon.htm | Book Review: January Moon | Book Review: January Moon
January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout From Fort Robinson, 1878–1879, by Jerome A. Greene, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2020, $29.95
Jerome A. Greene, retired research historian for the National Park Service and author of numerous books involving American Indians and the U.S. mi... |
5c9b1ed43c18688fcfa10b0101cbc20f | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-killing-season.htm | Book Review: The Killing Season | Book Review: The Killing Season
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66, by Geoffrey B. Robinson, Princeton University Press, N.J., 2018, $35
Although one of the most horrifying episodes of the 20th century, the 1965–66 genocide of upward of a half-million Indonesians by that island nation’s ... |
fecfbcbf1303a85f573d214ad1c60c36 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-lai.htm | Book Review: My Lai | Book Review: My Lai
My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent Into Darkness, by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, $34.95
The massacre of several hundred Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers at My Lai on March 16, 1968, was a war crime. When the story broke, many Americans refused to believe it. But th... |
ad48a70aedacf69a460c8ddd61135766 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-locomotive-war.htm | Book Review: The Locomotive of War | Book Review: The Locomotive of War
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt, by Peter Clarke, Bloomsbury Press, London, 2017, $30
War, Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky once observed, is the locomotive of history. British scholar Peter Clarke explores that premise, as well as the moralistic idiosy... |
2a41c391189951c1edafc726f811fc6c | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-master-of-deception.htm | Book Review: Master of Deception | Book Review: Master of Deception
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming, by Alan Ogden, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019, $27
As a schoolboy I happened across a 1933 copy of Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure. I discovered Peter was a sibling of Ian Fleming, who like his younger brother played a... |
db586c21210e7b1974a3a6d7e7dacdf8 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-normandy-44.htm | Book Review: Normandy ’44 | Book Review: Normandy ’44
Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France, by James Holland, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2019, $35 This account of the Normandy campaign by seasoned military historian James Holland provides an insightful and anecdote-filled chronicle of a popular chapter of World War I... |
055071c17c6f9bc7879da3e77a6ded19 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-passing-fury.htm | Book Review: A Passing Fury | Book Review: A Passing Fury
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II, by A.T. Williams, Random House UK, London, 2017, $18.95
Among the serious issues facing the Allies in the wake of World War II was the question of how best to deal with atrocities committed by the Nazi regime—specifically how ... |
adfa86e32b7428efd3f33a82b3a44250 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-pershings-lieutenants.htm | Book Review: Pershing’s Lieutenants | Book Review: Pershing’s Lieutenants
Pershing’s Lieutenants: American Military Leadership in World War I, edited by David T. Zabecki and Douglas V. Mastriano, Osprey Publishing, New York, 2020, $35
The Army with which the United States entered World War I was not the U.S. Army of today, nor even the Army with which the ... |
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Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard, by Guy de la Bédoyère, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2017, $35
A history of the Roman Praetorian Guard from its beginning through its disbanding by Constantine, this volume centers on the unit’s formation, role, structure, co... |
26059b73ed626ef29748cf5eff9ee07d | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-russias-iron-general.htm | Book Review: Russia’s Iron General | Book Review: Russia’s Iron General
Russia’s Iron General: The Life of Aleksei A. Brusilov 1853–1926, by Jamie H. Cockfield, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2019, $120
Jamie Cockfield’s biography Russia’s Iron General sheds new light on Alexei Alekseyevich Brusilov, whom the author ranks among th... |
bc4f351718159d4201cd43db9c91864c | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-russias-last-gasp.htm | Book Review: Russia’s Last Gasp | Book Review: Russia’s Last Gasp
Russia’s Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916–17, Prit Buttar, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, U.K., 2016, $30
Observers often complain that World War I histories concentrate on the Western Front to the exclusion of fighting elsewhere. Such big-name scholars as John Keegan, Norman Stone and Domi... |
0deb93307f9ba9f9b27fe5e19dca68d1 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-sand-creek-and-the-tragic-end-of-a-lifeway.htm | Book Review: Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway | Book Review: Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway
Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway, by Louis Kraft, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2020, $34.95
Louis Kraft has written many articles for Wild West and other publications, as well as seven books, including the 2011 biography Ned Wynkoop and the Lone... |
d7d052983a3ccd6ad46064de028f5b83 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-second-world-wars.htm | Book Review: The Second World Wars | Book Review: The Second World Wars
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, by Victor Davis Hanson, Basic Books, New York, 2017, $35
Historians have analyzed and written about World War II in exhaustive detail since the last days of the war itself, all the while debating its root causes ... |
3a9839047fe195c494014f9b5200d50d | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-sevastopols-wars.htm | Book Review: Sevastopol’s Wars | Book Review: Sevastopol’s Wars
Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea From Potemkin to Putin, by Mungo Melvin, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2017, $38
When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the world was shocked. Yet it wasn’t the first time. Catherine the Great had annexed the strategic peninsula on the north end of the ... |
56396d7f2f676dd0e662681204451211 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-silver.htm | Book Review: Silver | Book Review: Silver
Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis, by Mihir Bose, Fonthill Media, Oxford, U.K., 2017, $40
According to Indian-born biographer Bose, Bhagat Ram Talwar (code name “Silver”), a Hindu born in 1908 in the predominately Muslim North-West Frontier Province, was the most remarkable secret agent of World ... |
ad6c2a27c37a3ca24c5f0598540c751c | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-small-boats-and-daring-men.htm | Book Review: Small Boats and Daring Men | Book Review: Small Boats and Daring Men
Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare and the Early American Navy, by Benjamin Armstrong, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2019, $34.95
Covert operations often prove crucial toward weakening enemy resistance, while also serving to boost morale in th... |
131de6b0e099b23f28c4b9f64fb65402 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-stonewall-jackson-a-history-of-theconfederate-navy-raimondo-luraghi-acw.htm | Book Review: Stonewall Jackson: A History of the Confederate Navy (Raimondo Luraghi) : ACW | Book Review: Stonewall Jackson: A History of the Confederate Navy (Raimondo Luraghi) : ACW
Outgunned and outsupplied, the fledgling Confederate Navy used technological ingenuity to level the playing field.
By Kenneth P. Czech
When the Civil War erupted in 1861, the Confederate states were determined to protect their se... |
bc40411e538dc3e836a3fdf9509d1275 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-struggle-sea-power.htm | Book Review: The Struggle for Sea Power | Book Review: The Struggle for Sea Power
The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution, by Sam Willis, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2016, $35
Historians risk conceptualizing naval power in the American Revolution as a sort of deus ex machina, with fleets appearing at the right side of the map an... |
0c977df34a009c1037fc2644ebd2f6b6 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-tales-of-the-oregon-country.htm | Book Review: Tales of the Oregon Country | Book Review: Tales of the Oregon Country
Tales of the Oregon Country, by Carole Nielson, Nielson Publishing, Shady Grove, Ore., 2019, $15 plus shipping (email nubertr@aol.com for ordering information)
While growing up in southern Oregon, Carole Nielson heard plenty of old-timers’ tales and was hooked. In adulthood she ... |
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Texas Ranger Lee Hall: From the Red River to the Rio Grande, by Chuck Parsons, University of North Texas Press, Denton, 2020, $29.95
It took a set of rugged individuals to establish the Texas Rangers in Western legend, and in recent years historians have plucked out many such individu... |
ac79fb4416c3945e4e151bdfccda2b71 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-battle-of-guilford-courthouse.htm | Book Review: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse | Book Review: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement, by John R. Maass, The History Press, Charleston, S.C., 2020, $32.99
A historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, John R. Maass is the author of several books focusing on the American Revolution, i... |
14ce82b83361ce308912a8df79f56362 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-death-row-all-stars-by-howard-kazanjian-and-chris-enss.htm | Book Review: The Death Row All Stars, by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss | Book Review: The Death Row All Stars, by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss
The Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption and Murder, by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss, TwoDot, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2014, $16.95
It was only a four-game season for the team of baseball-playing inmate... |
aab63e1feb0e744457d52a8dd771f4cf | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-fighters.htm | Book Review: The Fighters | Book Review: The Fighters
The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, by C.J. Chivers, Simon & Schuster, New York, N.Y., 2018, $28 Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist C.J. Chivers has crafted a masterpiece of military history in The Fighters. This powerful book details the lives of six individuals who se... |
5659935665db03b1049d1ac9a1d7df18 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-folly-and-the-glory.htm | Book Review: The Folly and the Glory | Book Review: The Folly and the Glory
The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia and Political Warfare—1945–2020, by Tim Weiner, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2020, $29.99
Didn’t we beat the Russians in 1989? Apparently not, argues Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Tim Weiner, who seeks to make the case that we scored a knoc... |
e1d57022fb721c19be80e78ed291ddcc | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-fortress-alexander-watson.htm | Book Review: The Fortress by Alexander Watson | Book Review: The Fortress by Alexander Watson
The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands, by Alexander Watson, Basic Books, New York, 2020, $32
Within the context of World War I the Eastern Front is often the “forgotten front.” Much has been written about the horrors of the Western Front,... |
6a2ec13ae8d18aa03c2f08a603ff47af | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-frontiersmen-who-couldnt-shoot-straight.htm | Book Review: The Frontiersmen Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight | Book Review: The Frontiersmen Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight
The Frontiersmen Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight: The Army vs. the Pioneers, 1815–1845, by Gregory Michno, Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 2020, $18.95
Traditional frontier heroes have no place in this book by Wild West special contributor Gregory Michno, an independ... |
e3bf33dd2d3b95cf839b6e9c522f5bc0 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-gettysburg-nobody-knows-edited-by-gabor-s-boritt-acw.htm | Book Review: The Gettysburg Nobody Knows (edited by Gabor S. Boritt) : ACW | Book Review: The Gettysburg Nobody Knows (edited by Gabor S. Boritt) : ACW
The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, edited by Gabor S. Boritt, Oxford University Press, New York, $27.50.
No battle in American history was more pivotal than Gettysburg. It is, without a doubt, the best-known engagement of the Civil War–and probably of... |
266d542ffca0680fc04118006f2820c1 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-greatest-of-all-leathernecks.htm | Book Review: The Greatest of all Leathernecks | Book Review: The Greatest of all Leathernecks
The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, by Joseph Arthur Simon, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2019, $44.95
“Seems every time there’s a war, the men in my family join the Marines.” Forty years before a... |
7f361da838320b959b6ea20801504c56 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-imperial-russian-army.htm | Book Review: The Imperial Russian Army | Book Review: The Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War and Revolution, 1856–1917, by Roger R. Reese, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 2019, $45
It is well known that Russia fell under communist control as a consequence of World War I. Less well understood are the reasons. Author Roger Reese... |
a572e9f2a4e33954a3cb2e1843500afc | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-settlers-war-by-gregory-michno.htm | Book Review: The Settlers’ War, by Gregory Michno | Book Review: The Settlers’ War, by Gregory Michno
The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s, by Gregory Michno, Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 2011, $24.95
When someone mentions the Indian wars, most of us think of soldiers attacking Indian villages in winter, Plains warriors overwhelming cert... |
60abadf74195853c9b547116f6325ae9 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-splendid-and-the-vile.htm | Book Review: The Splendid and the Vile | Book Review: The Splendid and the Vile
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson, Crown, New York, 2020, $32
Erik Larson, author of the best-selling historical novels Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City, relates the heroic saga of Winston Churchill’s Brit... |
4dbe21ec52c112f17edf74948c1e1513 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-three-cornered-war.htm | Book Review: The Three-Cornered War | Book Review: The Three-Cornered War
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, by Megan Kate Nelson, Scribner, New York, 2020, $28
Megan Kate Nelson focuses on Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley’s invasion of New Mexico Territory and the Civil War–era campa... |
8d1d35ad14aa9999b5370d436b14211b | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-union-must-stand-the-civil-war-diary-of-john-quincy-adams-campbell-fifth-iowa-volunteer-infantry-edited-by-mark-grimsley-and-todd-d-miller-acw.htm | Book Review: The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry (edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller): ACW | Book Review: The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry (edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller): ACW
The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, edited by Mark Grimsley and Todd D. Miller, Univer... |
0eecdcf6e746fa9e8c387d0093775102 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-war-for-the-seas.htm | Book Review: The War for the Seas | Book Review: The War for the Seas
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II, by Evan Mawdsley, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2019, $32.50 Across the history of human conflict most wars comprise dozens of land battles and few sea battles. While following a chronology of engagements on land will... |
801775a036d10086250f71fd32318154 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-wars-of-the-bruces-scotland-england-and-ireland-13061328-colm-mcnamee-mh.htm | Book Review: The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306-1328 (Colm McNamee) : MH | Book Review: The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306-1328 (Colm McNamee) : MH
The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306-1328, by Colm McNamee, Tuckwell Press, Scotland, 1997, $17.95.
This new interpretation of the Scottish War of Independence grew out of author Colm McNamee’s dis... |
9b3b48bc80f7941034d88e1c60095122 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-west-of-billy-the-kid-by-frederick-nolan-ww.htm | Book Review: The West of Billy the Kid (by Frederick Nolan) : WW | Book Review: The West of Billy the Kid (by Frederick Nolan) : WW
The West of Billy the Kid, by Frederick Nolan, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1998, $39.95.
The task facing a biographer of Billy the Kid is to strip away the myth surrounding the young and reckless man. “The real Billy, a boy growing up on a harsh... |
f36b1fec79eb523d87352bba0e377043 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-the-whites-want-every-thing.htm | Book Review: The Whites Want Every Thing | Book Review: The Whites Want Every Thing
The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877 (Vol. 16 of Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier), edited by Will Bagley, The Arthur H. Clark Co., Norman, Okla., 2019, $55
Simplified accounts of the American West in the mid-19th century tend... |
2f39690be48ce3e32e12a48f59a6e27d | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-thunder-in-the-west.htm | Book Review: Thunder in the West | Book Review: Thunder in the West
Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid, by Richard W. Etulain, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2020, $29.95
A professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico who began writing and researching about Billy the Kid in the 1980s, Dick Etulain has prod... |
7745c6820867251ee354751ac33cc398 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-true-grit.htm | Book Review: True Grit | Book Review: True Grit
True Grit: A 50-Year Tribute, by the Ridgway Western Heritage Society, Ridgway, Colo., 2019, $20 plus shipping (for information on obtaining a copy, email the Ouray County Ranch History Museum at ocrhm.museum@gmail.com; the book is also available on the museum website)
“Wow! If I had known that, ... |
7185454f95afaa2a44f47fdae99c3a0a | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-undersea-warriors.htm | Book Review: Undersea Warriors | Book Review: Undersea Warriors
Undersea Warriors: The Untold History of the Royal Navy’s “Secret Service,” by Iain Ballantyne, Pegasus Books, New York, 2019, $35
Many historians date the end of the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany 30 years ago. To this day, however, many military ope... |
cc0243ab26a04c1d3ae519d74f607c06 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-uniforms-of-the-republic-of-texas-and-the-men-who-wore-them-1836-1848-by-bruce-marshall-mh.htm | Book Review: Uniforms of the Republic of Texas and the Men Who Wore Them, 1836-1848 (by Bruce Marshall) : MH | Book Review: Uniforms of the Republic of Texas and the Men Who Wore Them, 1836-1848 (by Bruce Marshall) : MH
Uniforms of the Republic of Texas and the Men Who Wore Them, 1836-1848, by Bruce Marshall, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 1999, $19.95.
Were the armed forces of Texas outfitted in coonskin caps, buckskin... |
7e1bb527e0af9d6a78ca695d2f0f8240 | https://www.historynet.com/book-review-wrecked-lives-and-lost-souls.htm | Book Review: Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls | Book Review: Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls
Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls: Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws, by Jerry Thompson, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2019, $24.95
Jerry Thompson, regents professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of many books on the history of the West... |
6181ee143a7f5045f1fd85f8eb7bdab2 | https://www.historynet.com/brazen-beards-of-the-civil-war.htm | Brazen Beards of the Civil War | Brazen Beards of the Civil War
Fashion trends come and go, but Civil War beards are forever.
Previous Next We’ll start with a classic and a fan favorite––Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside. It takes a lot of confidence to rock that look AND nearly ruin the Army of the Potomac. (Library of Congress) There’s nothing ... |
c80e29293d224a96cb84cfeaf40a8c82 | https://www.historynet.com/brenden-w-rensink-people-of-the-borderlands.htm | Brenden W. Rensink: People of the Borderlands | Brenden W. Rensink: People of the Borderlands
North American tribal people have dealt with the complex issue of cross-border migration since the mid-19th century, negotiating boundaries set by treaties between the United States and Mexico to the south and Canada to the north. The Yaquis of northern Sonora crossed into ... |
a0040f5ce4434029180a83832befc96f | https://www.historynet.com/brian-urquhart-one-of-the-few-to-protest-operation-market-garden-dies-at-101.htm | Brian Urquhart, One of the Few To Protest Operation Market Garden, Dies at 101 | Brian Urquhart, One of the Few To Protest Operation Market Garden, Dies at 101
“The worst way to make an argument is by reason and good information,” Sir Brian Urquhart, the British diplomat instrumental in the earliest days of the United Nations, told the New York Times in 1982. “You must appeal to people’s emotions a... |
40521995edbe8b59d8f8e1de007971f2 | https://www.historynet.com/buffalo-soldiers-1866-1951.htm | Buffalo Soldiers: The U.S. Army’s famed African-American fighters | Buffalo Soldiers: The U.S. Army’s famed African-American fighters
African-Americans have fought in the United States’ wars since the Revolution, and during the Civil War they comprised over 10 percent of Union Army troops and 16 percent of Union Navy Sailors. Yet the first peacetime African-American U.S. Regular Army u... |
ef97be01d29824e7b2666209d296473b | https://www.historynet.com/building-a-mig-killer-f-4b-phantom-ii.htm | Building a MiG-Killer F-4B Phantom II | Building a MiG-Killer F-4B Phantom II
Phantom “phans” can be a picky bunch when it comes to the myriad nuances among the many versions and upgrades that the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II underwent following its first flight in 1958. Hasegawa’s range of F-4 kits makes even the most detail-oriented modeler happy. First releas... |
4e177f1e4d6fb39d2cf8561803c815fe | https://www.historynet.com/building-an-airfix-1-48th-scale-messerschmitt-bf-109e.htm | Building an Airfix 1/48th-Scale Messerschmitt Bf 109E | Building an Airfix 1/48th-Scale Messerschmitt Bf 109E
Every hero needs a nemesis. For that dynamic duo of the Battle of Britain—the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane—the Messerschmitt Me-109E (our preferred designation) filled that role perfectly. The angular lines of the Luftwaffe’s frontline fighter give ... |
6b0bef7297e463f32d435634824fb9a9 | https://www.historynet.com/building-better-navy-jet.htm | Building a Better Navy Jet | Building a Better Navy Jet
Faced with an air superiority gap versus Air Force jets in the late 1940s and early ’50s, the U.S. Navy embarked on an ambitious aircraft development program that produced one of the world’s best all-around fighters.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, especially in aviation history. An... |
46fe3dd843e49d1ae3335f694489d9a4 | https://www.historynet.com/building-wop-mays-sopwith-camel.htm | Building “Wop” May’s Sopwith Camel | Building “Wop” May’s Sopwith Camel
The Czech model company Eduard is known for its very particular attention to detail. Like its etched metal detail sets, the company’s models are known for their crisp molding and superb accuracy. Eduard’s 1/48th-scale Sopwith Camel is no exception.
Released in a number of guises, this... |
aa733b4e154abf3c4a57a93f1b7e5c7f | https://www.historynet.com/burnside-was-betrayed-by-blundering-underlings-at-fredericksburg.htm | Blundering Underlings Betrayed Burnside at Fredericksburg | Blundering Underlings Betrayed Burnside at Fredericksburg
Plenty of blame to go around for the defeat that cost the Union army 13,000 casualties
To the casual observer, the Battle of Fredericksburg was a terrible blunder for the Union Army of the Potomac, in particular the daylong attacks on Marye’s Heights: 30,000 tro... |
b885b2acff86e1c1061178773f688274 | https://www.historynet.com/but-for-a-horse.htm | But For a Horse | But For a Horse
The Battle of Westport and, Indeed, the War Out West May Well Have Been Decided by a Stolen Gray Mare
It was a chilly fall morning in western Missouri, and George Thoman was a decidedly unhappy man. Rebel soldiers operating near Thoman’s residence in Westport had stolen his horse during the night, and t... |
da43f690ba3f5b5d8c7b3adc1dd59e73 | https://www.historynet.com/butlerofbritain.htm | Fiery War Painter: Lady Butler of Britain | Fiery War Painter: Lady Butler of Britain
From her earliest years, Elizabeth Southerden Thompson admired soldiers. A talented artist, she devoted her career to depicting battle scenes and men of war. Her skill at military artwork was so impressive that she became a sensation in Victorian Britain—when a female military ... |
140e8c71fe19378e1f37ef4d3d3a9467 | https://www.historynet.com/calico-cake.htm | Calico & Cake: Mosby’s Rangers Had a Raucous Fourth of July in 1864 | Calico & Cake: Mosby’s Rangers Had a Raucous Fourth of July in 1864
Things weren’t shaping up for a joyful Fourth of July in 1864, at least for the Union war effort. The presidential election loomed four months in the future and Lincoln’s reelection appeared to be very much in doubt, and Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s Confeder... |
037a258df6e859a06cba05ae06a11570 | https://www.historynet.com/california-artist-rick-hill-king-of-the-hill.htm | California Artist Rick Hill: King of the Hill | California Artist Rick Hill: King of the Hill
An Arapaho keeps vigil for “Distant Enemies.”
Held where California coastal breezes wash up and over live oaks and black sage atop canyon walls that sweep down to the pounding surf of the Pacific Ocean, the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach has showcased juried art each summ... |
0aca699f75ef1a5999ea6787622e0b33 | https://www.historynet.com/camp-shanks-last-stop-u-s-a.htm | Camp Shanks: Last Stop, U.S.A. | Camp Shanks: Last Stop, U.S.A.
As the war effort ramped up to full speed, U.S. Army planners turned 2,000 acres of quiet New York farmland into the busiest military embarkation camp in the world. IN THE DARKEST HOURS of many nights from April 1943 to May 1945, people living on the outskirts of Orangeburg, New York, awo... |
132bba6980f671ca35bc3d2401588579 | https://www.historynet.com/capital-cannons.htm | How Capital Cannons Protected the Endangered District of Columbia | How Capital Cannons Protected the Endangered District of Columbia
To protect Washington from menacing Southerners, Maj. John Barnard built a network of forts and gun emplacements. It was only tested once.
Although it was the Union capital, Washington, D.C., was in essence a Southern city. It also wasn’t well-protected,... |
d569c6999b703a849ac52612a7375a0f | https://www.historynet.com/capital-defense-washington-dc-in-the-civil-war.htm | Capital Defense – Washington, D.C., in the Civil War | Capital Defense – Washington, D.C., in the Civil War
When the first inklings emerged early in 1861 that a fighting war pitting North versus South would soon break out, the residents of Washington, D.C.—at least those whose sympathies were with the Union—began to feel more than a little threatened. Though it was a haven... |
de406114c7fe82fd5930db0e8e477db4 | https://www.historynet.com/caproni-flying-barrel.htm | Caproni Flying Barrel | Caproni Flying Barrel
Luigi Stipa claimed his ‘intubed propeller’ was the ancestor of the jet engine.
Even in an era when aircraft designers experimented with every conceivable shape and size, the prototype designed by Italian engineer Luigi Stipa and built by the Caproni company in 1932 stood apart. In place of a conv... |
6635a199689decbd888918c6463bfaa0 | https://www.historynet.com/cease-fire-jefferson-davis-lost-slaves.htm | Cease Fire: How Jefferson Davis Lost His Slaves | Cease Fire: How Jefferson Davis Lost His Slaves
Pictures really do speak louder than words. In response to those who persistently maintain that the Emancipation Proclamation freed no actual slaves, here is irrefutable pictorial evidence to the contrary. This deceptively ordinary-looking on-the-spot sketch by Frank Lesl... |
3826c81abc7e9ac3caea6edf64717126 | https://www.historynet.com/chaco-war-1932-1935-battle-barrens.htm | The Chaco War 1932-1935: Battle in the Barrens | The Chaco War 1932-1935: Battle in the Barrens
Bolivia’s obscure war with Paraguay showcased the modern weapons and tactics that would become so familiar in the upcoming world war.
From 1932 to 1935 Bolivia and Paraguay were locked in a savage struggle that produced the bloodiest but least-known conventional war in the... |
7448a308d73e05ca050366a0228136b5 | https://www.historynet.com/champion-johnson-county-war.htm | Champion of the Johnson County War | Champion of the Johnson County War
During the April 9, 1892, siege of Wyoming’s KC Ranch, Nate Champion put up a mighty one-man stand, even prompting one of his enemies to call him ‘a he-man with plenty of guts’.
Wyoming in early April can be brutal, and the small army of more than 50 wealthy cattlemen and their hired ... |
8491208102803d46e0aff0d06a9b2714 | https://www.historynet.com/charles-de-gaulle-wartime-leader-of-france.htm | Charles de Gaulle: Wartime Leader of France | Charles de Gaulle: Wartime Leader of France
The turmoil of World War II made heroes and household names of many in the military, most of whom were already in positions of military power and whose decisions and actions shaped their countries’ military policies and directions. Charles de Gaulle, however, held a position ... |
2d8f27f6df208240bd49b090b57c6da9 | https://www.historynet.com/charlie-holloway-secret-vietnam-mission.htm | The Day We Lost Charlie: a Secret Mission and a Sudden Death | The Day We Lost Charlie: a Secret Mission and a Sudden Death
On Dec. 21, 1962, the last in a formation of 15 “Flying Bananas,” the nickname for H-21 Shawnee troop transport helicopters, taxied into position at 2:55 p.m. for their scheduled 3 p.m. departure. The 15 helicopters lined up on the Pleiku airstrip in South Vi... |
6161cb99fdcc90c7ca751e0fd68e7037 | https://www.historynet.com/charmed-life-of-captain-eddie-rickenbacker-january-99-aviation-history-feature.htm | Charmed Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker | Charmed Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
When America’s WWI Ace of Aces Edward Rickenbacker became president of Eastern Air Lines, he said: ‘I will always keep in mind that I am in the greatest business in the world… and I can serve humanity more completely in my line of endeavor than in any other.’
He was called Ame... |
e4e1a4c491c638fe57224c8b9c2c7881 | https://www.historynet.com/chinas-tank-in-the-vietnam-war.htm | China’s Tank in the Vietnam War | China’s Tank in the Vietnam War
One of the more exotic North Vietnamese Army tanks to crash through the gates of Saigon’s Presidential Palace on April 30, 1975, was similar to the Soviet-built PT-76 amphibious light tank, but with a rounder turret and a larger gun. This latecomer to the Vietnam War did not arrive from ... |
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