Military history

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

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During World War I, the American Expeditionary Force Second Division saw more action and captured more ground and enemy combatants than any other, including the vaunted First Division.

The Nashville Campaign, culminating with the last major battle of the Civil War, is one of the most compelling and controversial campaigns of the conflict.

Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer.

In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist.

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

In 1968, Theodore Hammett entered a war he believed was wrong, pressured by his father's threat to disown him if he withdrew from a Marine Corps officer candidate program.

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During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer, diplomat, and philanthropist.

Israel has fought many wars since its founding in 1948, from conventional military conflicts with Arab forces to irregular clashes with guerrilla and terror groups.

While the 20th century brought many technological advancements to the battlefield, a key weapon of warfare remains the soldier and his rifle.

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When separatist revolts erupted in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800s, opinion in the United States was undecided as to what position to take.

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United Sates Marine Sergeant Tim Fortner survived 14 months in Vietnam as a door gunner in a CH-46 helicopter, completing 27 strike flight missions.

The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians.

The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end after he betrayed his American compatriots.

The 13th Century was a fascinating era in world history.

Walter McDermott graduated with honors from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1968, enlisted in the U.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft.

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics.

Before unmanned combat drones, there was the Grumman OV-1C Mohawk, a twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft loaded with state-of-the-art target detection systems.

During the Chickamauga Campaign, General Stanley's two Union cavalry divisions battled Forrest's and Wheeler's cavalry corps in some of the most difficult terrain for mounted operations.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

Covering 2000 years--from Roman times through the Cold War--this book describes the evolution of military architecture in the territory today known as the Netherlands.

World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched "e;the American century.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

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More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

This is the first and only comprehensive history of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to men and women serving in the United States Army and Air Force.

The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

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There was more to World War I than the Western Front.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place.

Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

Two aging Civil War veterans mourned the death of their sons at a joint funeral in Knoxville National Cemetery.

It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists and young physicists in their twenties, many not yet having earned a degree.

This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.

Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants.

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City.