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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
A fantastic new crop of revisionist histories focused on World War II’s staggered beginnings […]
‘Bonds of War’ Book Review: How War Profiteers Helped the Union Win
The Civil War pushed American finance into a new, more modern phase.
What Happened to Catch-22’s B-25s?
There was a life after the movies for these supporting actors.
Before CGI, This Director Needed to Build His Own B-25 Fleet
If Mike Nichols wanted to film Catch-22, he needed a lot of airworthy Mitchells.
What You Don’t Know About Ben Butler: An Interview with His Biographer
Elizabeth Leonard provides a nuanced portrait of the controversial Civil War general.
And Then There Were Three: One of the Last Living Navajo Code Talkers Dies at Age 98
Samuel Sandoval and other Navajo Nation members used their tribal language to forge a complex code Japan never cracked.
Book Review: ‘The Great Stewardess Rebellion’
Treated as sex objects and eye candy, flight attendants had to fight to be treated as professionals in the airline industry. Nell McShane Wulfhart chronicles their fight.
Stewart Brand’s Inventive Life, a New Biography
Not a few readers first encountered Stewart Brand in the opening scene of The […]