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New Study Looks at a Grim Mission: Bringing WWII’s Dead Back Home
More than 171,000 dead Americans were returned home after the fighting, but it's "a largely unknown chapter of the war."
This Confederate Officer Couldn’t Go To War Without His One-Gallon Whiskey Jug
Shanks Evans was a rip-roaring, knock-kneed fighter—and his fondness for alcohol made him his own worst enemy.
Kharkiv Is No Stranger To Invasion—The Nazis Fought Four Battles Over It
Ukraine’s second-largest city today was one of the most hotly-contested objectives on World War II’s Eastern Front.
‘The Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962’ Review: He wanted to shock and amaze the American president
The world stood at the verge of ending not with a whimper but a bang.
This Minor Sea Battle in Hudson Bay Handed North America to France — For a Time
The nearly-forgotten clash shifted the balance of colonial power in the New World.
How a Fashionista General Saved This Man from the Front Lines
Gen. William Hardee found a tailor deep in the ranks.
He Created Britain’s War Cemeteries. But He Had To Fight To Do It.
Fabian Ware wanted to create dignified resting places for British war dead. But he found himself embattled by society ladies, arguing over headstones and needing a rescue from Winston Churchill.
De Gaulle’s Close Call: How France’s Ugliest Car Saved Its President
Were these the most inept would-be assassins in history?