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Obama also fought with the lack of his dad, who he watched just once again following his parents divorced, even when Obama Sr. seen Hawaii for a short period in 1971. " had abandoned heaven, and so my mother or grand parents explained might obviate that single, unassailable fact," he later revealed. "they mightn't clarify what it would have been like had he remained." Ten decades after, in 1981, catastrophe struck Obama Sr. if he lost both of his thighs at a severe automobile crash. Confined to a wheel chair, he lost his task.
Back in 1982, Obama Sr. was included with still another auto crash when vacationing at Nairobi. Obama Sr. expired on November 2-4, 1982, when Obama had been 21 yrs of age. "In the time of the passing, my dad remained a myth if you ask me personally," Obama after wrote, "both more and less than a guy." As a young child, Obama didn't need a romance with his dad. After his son was still a baby, Obama Sr. proceeded to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University and also pursue a Ph.D.. The parents of Obama divorced in in which his son had been 2 and officially separated. Right afterwards, Obama Sr. returned into Kenya. 6 months after, Barack was created. Obama studied at Occidental College. Then he moved to Columbia University at nyc, graduating with a degree in political science in 1983. Obama transferred to Chicago after employed in the industry industry for a couple of decades. Additionally, he also worked at also the Altgeld Gardens communities and the Roseland about the Southside as a neighborhood organizer for citizens. From Indonesia, Dunham wed LO-LO Soetoro back in 1965. The family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Maya Soetoro Ng, Obama's halfsister, had been created in 1970. Incidents in Indonesia abandoned Dunham fearful for education and her child's security so Obama was shipped back to live with his grand parents. Halfsister along with his mum later combined them.
He met with their discussion Tribe and law professor Laurence Tribe, that whenever Obama asked to join his team '' the professor agreed. "the greater he'd in Harvard Law School and the longer he impressed people, the more obvious it had been that he may have had any such thing, said Professor Tribe at a 2012 interview using front-line, "however it had been clear that he wished to really make a huge difference for people, to communities." It was that and that Obama joined the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin he met with a lawyer who has been delegated for his own advisor, Michelle Robinson. Shortly afterwards, the couple began communicating. Back in February 1990, Obama has been chosen the first African American editor of this Harvard Law Review. He also graduated magna cum laude from 1991 from Harvard Law.
Instruction He helped organize voter registration drives -- also also taught law at the University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and 2004 as a lecturer and as a professor. Law Career He cried in basketball and graduated from 1979 with honors while Obama registered in the Punahou Academy. As one of just three students at the faculty, Obama became what it's designed to be African American and alert to racism. He explained how he fought to get back together societal perceptions of his multi racial legacy with their or her own awareness of self: "I detected that there is nothing similar to me personally at the Sears, Roebuck xmas catalogue...and that Santa was a white man," he also wrote. "I moved in to the toilet and stood in the front of the mirror together with all of my perceptions and limbs apparently undamaged, appearing because I'd always appeared and wondered whether something had been wrong with me personally."
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2018
In 1933, this site became America’s first national historical park. The post Daily Quiz for May 1, 2018 appeared first on HistoryNet . ...
CWT Review: Railroads Get Their Due in Georgia
The Western & Atlantic Railroad, a vital rail link for both sides during the war, provides the backdrop for three unique museums in nort...
CWT Book Review: Civil War’s First Blood
The Civil War’s First Blood—Missouri 1854-1861 by James Denny and John Bradbury, Missouri Life, 2007, 138 pages, $29.95. When Rebel forces l...
CWT Book Review: First Louisiana Special Battalion
The First Louisiana Special Battalion: Wheat’s Tigers in the Civil War by Gary Schreckengost, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, N.C....
CWT Book Review: Fighting for Defeat
Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865 By Michael C.C. Adams In December 1862, on the muddy banks of the Rappaha...
CWT Book Review: How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War: The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat by Bevin Alexander, Crown, 336 pages, $25.95. In...
CWT Book Review: Mark Twain’s Civil War
Mark Twain’s Civil War edited by David Rachels, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007, 232 pages, $30. During 1877, in his first pub...
CWT Book Review: Unfurl Those Colors!
Unfurl Those Colors! McClellan, Sumner, & the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign by Marion V. Armstrong Jr., University of Alaba...
Lights…Camera… Civil War!
The Silver Screen’s Impact on the Blue and the Gray. Americans began their struggle to define the historical meaning of the Civil War as soo...
Cavalier Gunner
The diary entries of one of J.E.B. Stuart’s renowned Horse Artillerymen chronicle the Battle of Brandy Station and the Rebels’ 1863 march in...
CWT Letter from the Editor- June 2008
Human After All General William N. Pendleton, the Army of Northern Virginia’s artillery chief, does not fit the stereotype for a typical com...
Interview with Gary Gallagher: Hollywood Interprets the Civil War
Gary W. Gallagher is a professor at the University of Virginia and a noted historian who has authored more than a dozen books, including Lee...
CWT Today- June 2008
Controversial Proposal for Grant Memorial Ask anyone what they think is Washington, D.C.’s most impressive presidential monument and they’re...
CWT Letters from Readers- June 2008
Our readers respond to Drew Gilpin Faust’s article “This Republic of Suffering” in the February 2008 issue. On Killing Thank you for a wonde...
Small Planes, Big Thrills: The Mighty Midgets
Born with the homebuilt lightplane movement in the 1920s, the “Builder’s Class” of Formula One racers continues to thrill spectators today a...
CWT Review: Alvarez Kelly
Alvarez Kelly directed by Edward Dmytryk, Sony Pictures. The 1960s Western holds a unique place in the history of American cinema. To succee...
CWT Book Review: George Thomas
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union (Campaigns and Commanders Series, Vol. 13) by Christopher J. Einolf, University of Oklahoma Press. Al...
CWT Book Review: Seventh Rhode Island Infantry
The Seventh Rhode Island Infantry in the Civil War by Robert Grandchamp, McFarland & Co. Civil War fighting units derived much of their ...
CWT Book Review: Wolf of the Deep
Wolf of the Deep by Stephen Fox, Alfred A. Knopf. Stephen Fox’s Wolf of the Deep is an enjoyable study of Raphael Semmes, the spectacularly ...
CWT Book Review: Hardtack & Coffee
Hardtack & Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life By John D. Billings Images of Civil War soldiers in camp usually feature men sitting...
CWT Book Review: With the Old Confeds
With the Old Confeds by Samuel D. Buck. Patriotic young Southerners who rallied to the colors in 1861 often gave colorful names to the volun...
CWT Review: The Hidden History of Decatur House
“I felt like the Queen of Sheba when she saw the riches of King Solomon, ‘the half had not been told me,’” wrote Frederick Douglass, describ...
CWT Book Review: Intensely Human
Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the Civil War by Margaret Humphreys, Johns Hopkins University Press. Although field cond...
CWT Book Review: The Irish General
The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher by Paul R. Wylie, University of Oklahoma Press. Few Civil War commanders have evoked such conflict...
CWT Book Review: General Lee’s Army
General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph T. Glatthaar, Free Press. The Army of Northern Virginia has been the subject of count...
Jefferson Davis and the Politics of Command
The Southern president’s single-minded commitment to victory undercut the Confederacy’s chance for success. Jefferson Davis’ chief occupatio...
CWT Letter from the Editor- August 2008
Who Done It? When carpenter Lewis Miller of York, Pennsylvania, learned of the capitulation of the Confederate States of America, he broke o...
Interview with Chandra Manning: Common Soldiers and Slavery
Chandra Manning is an assistant professor at Georgetown University whose provocative book What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, a...
CWT Today- August 2008
Three Soldiers, Three Ceremonies Veterans get their due nearly a century and a half after the fighting ended. Musician and Sportsman A Union...
CWT Letters from Readers- August 2008
Lincoln or Not? The “Lincoln at Gettysburg?” piece in the April issue drew responses from several readers. Here are a few. Bob Zeller’s arti...
Daily Quiz for April 30, 2018
Mildred McAfee Horton served as the first director of this organization. The post Daily Quiz for April 30, 2018 appeared first on HistoryN...
July 2018 Table of Contents
The July 2018 issue features a cover story about the proliferation of fragging incidents during the Vietnam War The post July 2018 Table of...
July 2018 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Winston Churchill, Choctaw code talkers and Civil War coal torpedoes The post ...
Book Review: World War II at Sea
Craig Symonds presents a broad, deep retrospective of the key maritime clashes and naval figures of World War II The post Book Review: Worl...
Book Review: Canadians on the Somme, 1916
William Stewart relates the overlooked Canadian experience in the 1916 Battle of the Somme The post Book Review: Canadians on the Somme, 19...
Book Review: The Armies of Ancient Persia
Iranian author Kaveh Farrokh studies the Sassanians in his first book of a three-volume history of ancient Persia The post Book Review: The...
Book Review: Lexington and Concord
George Daughan delves into the "whys" behind the spark that set off the American Revolution The post Book Review: Lexington and C...
Book Review: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger look at the War of 1812 clash that birthed "The Age of Jackson" The post Book Review: Andrew Jackso...
Book Review: Lützen
Peter Wilson examines the 1632 battle that marked the peak of Sweden's participation in the Thirty Years' War The post Book Review:...
Book Review: ‘I Will Not Surrender the Hair of a Horse’s Tail’
Robert Watt profiles Chief Victorio, among the greatest Apache strategists of the Indian wars The post Book Review: ‘I Will Not Surrender t...
Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns
The marine scientist, oceanographer, author and historical researcher has discovered more than 20 major shipwrecks — and counting The post ...
Insect-Class Gunboat
In the lead-up to World War I Britain revived its gunboats to extend power upriver from the seas The post Insect-Class Gunboat appeared fi...
Daily Quiz for April 29, 2018
Recently released book, Fateful Rendezvous, is a biography of this war hero who had a U.S. airport named for him in 1949. The post Daily Qu...
CWT Book Review: Voices of the Confederate Navy
Voices of the Confederate Navy: Articles, Letters, Reports and Reminiscences by R. Thomas Campbell, McFarland & Co. Although less well k...
CWT Book Review: Roll Call to Destiny
Roll Call to Destiny: The Soldier’s Eye View of Civil War Battles by Brent Nosworthy, Basic Books Tactics and weaponry specialist Brent Nosw...
CWT Review: Lew Wallace Study and Museum
Lew Wallace Study and Museum The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum chronicles every aspect of the general’s eventful life. Designed and b...
CWT Book Review: A Volunteer’s Adventures
A Volunteer’s Adventures: A Union Captain’s Record of the Civil War By John William DeForest The diaspora that followed Hurricane Katrina in...
CWT Book Review: Co. “Aytch,” First Tennessee Regiment
Co. “Aytch,” First Tennessee Regiment by Sam R. Watkins, edited by Ruth H.F. McAllister, Providence House How do you improve on a classic Ci...
CWT Book Review: Confederate Daughters
Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War by Victoria E. Ott, Southern Illinois University Press Victoria Ott examines the l...
CWT Book Review: Camp William Penn
Camp William Penn by Donald Scott Sr., Arcadia Publishing The latest release in the Arcadia Publishing series “Images of America,” Camp Will...
CWT Book Review: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause by Jeffry D. Wert, Simon & Schuster Not long after the Civil War, Confederate Brigadier General William H.F...
The Secret Life of Erich Gimpel
Landed by U-boat on the coast of Maine in 1944, the senior agent of a two-man Nazi spy team had a thrilling tale to tell—most of it true Th...
In His Father’s Shadow
Searching for the real Robert Todd Lincoln. As we celebrate the Lincoln bicentennial, the Great Emancipator—and by extension everyone around...
At War With the Press
Many generals considered reporters ‘the scum of creation,’ but George Meade ran one out of camp backward on a mule. With some justification,...
Walt Whitman’s Calling Card
A memento inspires a Union soldier’s great-grandson to research an encounter with the poet. For years my family has stored away a collection...
CWT Letter from the Editor- October 2008
‘We Don’t Want the Truth Told!’ Major General George G. Meade clearly did not see eye to eye with reporters (P. 48), but perhaps no Union ge...
CWT Today- October 2008
Cedar Creek Battlefield: Ruined Forever? A serious dispute between the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation and nearby Belle Grove Plantation ...
CWT Letters from Readers- October 2008
Francis the Ripper? The “Ads of the Age” item in the August issue, featuring Dr. Tumblety’s “pimple banishing” cream, drew several letters, ...
CWT Review: Andersonville
Andersonville Directed by John Frankenheimer, June 2004 Andersonville, the 1996 Turner Pictures made-for-TV film, gives the notorious Confed...
CWT Book Review: George Stoneman
George Stoneman: A Biography of the Civil War General by Ben Fuller Fordney, McFarland & Co. George Stoneman’s claim to fame is that he ...
CWT Book Review: Awaiting the Heavenly Country
Awaiting the Heavenly Country— The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz, Cornell University Press To 21st-century Ame...
CWT Book Review: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War By Herman Melville Although he never visited the front in person, Herman Melville was virtually shell-s...
CWT Book Review: Immortal Captives
Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy by Mauriel P. Joslyn, Pelican Publishi...
CWT Book Review: Decision in the Heartland
Decision in the Heartland—The Civil War in the West by Steven E. Woodworth, Praeger Publishing Civil War historiography has been dominated b...
CWT Book Review: Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten
Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten—How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War by Gary Gallagher, University of North...
CWT Book Review: The Dark Intrigue
The Dark Intrigue: The True Story of a Civil War Conspiracy by Frank Van Der Linden, Fulcrum Publishing In his acclaimed 1991 study of Abrah...
‘The Monitor Is No More’
USS Monitor’s famous clash with CSS Virginia is etched in history. But perhaps its most important battle was the one to save itself. Massive...
Dark Days in the Southland
A reporter’s 1865 trip through the defeated Confederacy revealed a ravaged landscape and bitter people. On a hot day in June 1865, young Har...
‘General Wheat, Is That You?’
How I came to discover an unidentified ambrotype of a legendary New Orleans warrior. In the fall of 1860, a New York Herald reporter visited...
Incognito in Baltimore
Rumors of an assassination plot forced President-elect Lincoln to sneak through Charm City in 1861. When Abraham Lincoln left Spring- field,...
CWT Letter from the Editor- December 2008
‘Bull Head’ Depending on your source, Major General Edwin V. Sumner went by the nickname of either “Bull Head,” “Bull of the Woods” or just ...
Interview with Harold Holzer
Harold Holzer’s latest book, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (Simon & Schuster, 2008),...
CWT Today- December 2008
New Museum Celebrates Midwest Soldiers No battles took place in Kenosha, Wis., but the town is centered in a region that dispatched more tha...
CWT Letters from Readers- December 2008
Ladies First in Winchester In the August 2008 issue’s “Mail Call,” Robert E. Zaworski pointed out the integral role Southern white women pla...
Joshua Sill: The Hero and His Threatened Monument
“Another sacrifice to the grim, insatiate Moloch of War,” The Highland Weekly News evoked when reporting the death of Brig. Gen. Joshua W. S...
Hallowed Ground | Megiddo (Armageddon), Israel
Megiddo, in Israel’s Jezreel Valley, is among the most fought-over pieces of ground in history. The world’s great armies have waged 34 known...
WWII Review: Blazing Angels 2- Secret Missions of WWII
As the sequel to the premiere flight-combat action game from earlier this year, Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII raises the bar set...
WWII Review: Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution (2007) Director: Ang Lee Time: 158 minutes. Color. Subtitles. This aptly titled cautionary tale about the unfathomable mysteri...
WWII Book Review: The Forgotten 500
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II By Gregory Freeman. 305 pp. Ca...
WWII Book Review: Winifred Wagner
Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth By Brigitte Hamann. Translated from German by Alan Bance. 592 pp. Harcourt, 2006. ...
WWII Book Review: Mussolini and His Generals
Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922–1940 By John Gooch. 642 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ...
Martha Gellhorn: A Woman at War
In pursuit of a story, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn pushed the boundaries of her profession, the military, and even common sense. Marth...
“Wild Bill” Donovan’s Comeuppance
A hapless cloak-and-dagger operation in Lisbon set off a chain of intrigue that was part of “Wild Bill” Donovan’s ultimate downfall. The sto...
“Our Time in Hell”
The Japanese counterattack in Guadalcanal was a harrowing slog through thirty-five miles of brutal jungle—with all but certain death waiting...
The Best of Willie & Joe
Bill Mauldin’s timeless characters captured the lot of the common soldier of World War II—and every war. In late September 1943, the 45th In...
On the Trail of Washington’s Wartime Secrets
Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy had seized so much property in and around Washington that people joked ...
His Majesty’s Director of Pornography
No one ever had to reproach Sefton Delmer with the admonition “know your enemy.” The son of an Australian professor who taught at Berlin Uni...
Conversation with Robert Patrick
The Greatest Stories Ever Digitized Col. Robert Patrick, USA (Ret.), is director of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress....
WWII Today- February 2008
‘Bomb-Away’: The Enola Gay’s Navigation Log Sold at Auction As he stepped from the Enola Gay into the Tinian sunshine on August 6, 1945, Cap...
What if: the Japanese Had Won the Battle of the Coral Sea?
From May 4–8, 1942, American, Australian, and Japanese naval units fought the world’s first engagement decided exclusively by carrier-based ...
WWII Review: The Fuerhrerbunker
The Fuerhrerbunker (1935–1942) Director: Christoph Neubauer Time: 50 minutes. B&W. We all know what Hitler’s Berlin underground lair loo...
WWII Book Review: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe By James J. Sheehan. 304 pp. Houghton Mifflin, 2008. $26. Renowned hi...
WWII Book Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story By Diane Ackerman. 368 pp. Norton, 2007. $24.95. In the early 1930s, Jan and Antonina Zabinski ran the Wa...
WWII Book Review: The Airmen and the Headhunters
The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II By Judith M. Heim...
WWII Book Reviews: Some of Sir Winston’s Best Friends
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship By Martin Gilbert. 359 pp. Henry Holt & Co., 2007. $30. American Jennie: The Remarkable Li...
An American Boy’s World War II Childhood
Too young to serve, the generation that grew up just behind was shaped by war in its own profound, funny, and moving way. The grim headlines...
Secrets of the Nazi Interrogators
The Luftwaffe developed masterful psychological techniques to milk Allied airmen for information. For the American and British troops who fo...
A Savage Fight for New Guinea
A savage battle on New Guinea was fought by men near the breaking point before it even began. From the safety of Port Moresby, New Guinea, G...
Smooth Sailing for an Old Warship
Looking around at many of my seven hundred fellow passengers making their way up the gang plank, I realize they faced decidedly different ci...
Eisenhower’s Rabbi, Who Saved the Survivors
Not many lieutenant colonels would have dared blow the whistle on Gen. George S. Patton Jr.—but then not many lieutenant colonels had seen w...
Conversation with David Stafford
In 2004, British historian David Stafford’s Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion tracked Normandy through ten...
WWII Today- March 2008
American Who Infiltrated the Manhattan Project for the Soviets Honored in Russia It could have been a heart- warming American success story...
What if: the British Hadn’t Bombed Hamburg?
During 1943 the RAF’s Bomber Command fought three aerial campaigns in the night skies over Nazi Germany: the Battle of the Ruhr (March throu...
WWII Review: Company of Heroes- Opposing Fronts
One of the best-reviewed games of 2006, Company of Heroes was destined to become a franchise. With its immersive gameplay, complex intraunit...
WWII Book Review: The Holy See and Hitler’s Germany
The Holy See and Hitler’s Germany By Gerhard Besier. 272 pp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $35. Densely packed and often less-than-elegantly tra...
WWII Review: Untold Stories of the Tuskegee Airmen
Untold Stories of the Tuskegee Airmen Director: Tom Rubeck Time: 51 minutes. Color/B&W. In 2007, the surviving members of the famed Tusk...
WWII Book Review: Ted Williams at War
Ted Williams at War By Bill Nowlin. 368 pp. Rounder Books, 2007. $24.95. Bill Nowlin may have stepped to the plate once too often. As the au...
WWII Book Review: The Forger
The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin By Cioma Schönhaus. 220 pp. Da Capo, 2008. $23. If this were fiction, it co...
WWII Book Review: Stalingrad
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught By Michael K. Jones. Foreword by David M. Glantz. 320 pp. Casemate, 2007. $32.95....
A Daring Rescue Behind the Lines
Operation Halyard weathered fierce British opposition, communist sabotage, and the threat of Nazi discovery to become one of the most succes...
Operation Starvation
A brilliant synergy between air and sea came close to defeating Japan even before the atomic bombs. Late on the afternoon of March 27, 1945,...
Fight to the Finish on Leyte
MacArthur’s strategic blunders in taking Leyte were matched only by the Japanese army’s miscalculations. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita had intende...
Lawrence of Morocco
In his memoirs, the anthropologist Carleton Coon wanted to set one thing straight: The explosives his team of Arab saboteurs used to blow up...
Harsh Winds Shake the Dust from Manzanar’s Past
Back in the early 1950s, when I was a high school student in Oregon, our American history teacher told us a sad story of how the civil right...
Conversation with Pete Hamill
Two Legendary Journalists, a Generation Apart, on the Art of War Reporting Pete Hamill was born to Irish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1935, the...
WWII Today- May 2008
Long-Forgotten P-38 Reemerges on Welsh Beach When Lt. Robert F. Elliott pulled his P-38F Lightning into the Welsh sky on September 27, 1942,...
WWII Letters from Readers- May 2008
What’s Wrong with This Picture? My question pertains to page 71 of the December 2007 issue. Which general, Eisenhower or Marshall, is wearin...
The Athenian Century
For the better part of a hundred years, Athens commanded an empire to be reckoned with. But the Parthenon and every other emblem of the poli...
Looking Back: Days of Future Past
How others saw America long ago in books now in the public domain The post Looking Back: Days of Future Past appeared first on HistoryNet ...
Sumter’s Stepchild: Overlooked in Charleston Harbor, Castle Pinckney has a few of its own tales to tell
On an unseasonably hot afternoon in Charleston, S.C., last fall, a few intrepid civil warriors were fully prepared for a boat “assault” on a...
Musketgate
The Civil War contracting scandal that took down a U.S. senator—and led to the passage of “Lincoln’s Law” The post Musketgate appeared fir...
Get Everybody Out!
In May 1968, more than 1,500 were surrounded by an advancing enemy at Kham Duc The post Get Everybody Out! appeared first on HistoryNet . ...
Daily Quiz for April 24, 2018
The government of Tenino, Washington assisted its citizens during the Great Depression in this unique way. The post Daily Quiz for April 24...
WWII Review: Battle for the Pacific
From its familiar heads-up display to its combat system and objective-based missions, The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific appears to...
WWII Review: Nanking
Nanking Director: Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman Time: 89 minutes. Color/B&W. Think of this flick as a documentary variation on Schind...
WWII Book Review: The Hellish Vortex
The Hellish Vortex: Between Breakfast and Dinner By Richard M. Baughn. 394 pp. BookSurge, 2006. $20.99. Nonfiction books about air power a...
WWII Book Review: Killing Rommel
Killing Rommel: A Novel By Steven Pressfield. 320 pp. Doubleday, 2008. $24.95. The author of the best- selling Gates of Fire shifts fictiona...
WWII Book Review: Polish Deportees of World War II
The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World Edited by Tadeusz Pio...
WWII Book Review: Endgame, 1945
Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II By David Stafford. 608 pp. Little, Brown and Co., 2007. $26.99. This book is fine ...
WWII Book Review: Franco and Hitler
Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II By Stanley G. Payne. 336 pp. Yale University Press, 2007. $30. Now a professor emeritu...
Celebrating 100 Years of the Royal Air Force
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center celebrated the 100th anniversary of the oldest air force in the world — Great Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF...
What if: the Manhattan Project Had Failed?
On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated one hundred forty thou...
Voices from Iwo Jima
Veterans’ reminiscences recall the fear, courage, and—yes—humor they brought to the legendary battle in the Pacific. February 19, 1945, dawn...
Seeing Ghosts in a Martyred French Village
France is a pretty country full of pretty little villages. But Oradour- sur-Glane is not pretty. On June 10, 1944, the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer ...
She Also Served
“What the hell are we supposed to do with them?” thundered one American army major in 1942, an all-too-typical reaction to the unprecedented...
WWII Today- July 2008
‘Lost Fleet’ of U-boats Located in the Black Sea For Rudolf Arendt, captain of the German submarine U-23, the situation must have been unbea...
What if: the Japanese high command had refused to surrender
By the summer of 1945, Japan had, by every reasonable standard, lost the war. The American juggernaut had destroyed its navy, breached its i...
WWII Review: Pacific Storm- Allies
When it was released in 2006, Pacific Storm was quickly recognized as one of the most challenging and original World War II– themed real-tim...
WWII Review: The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters (2007) Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky. Time: 98 minutes. Color. Subtitles. Think of The Counterfeiters as a cross between ...
WWII Book Review: Bradley
Bradley By Alan Axelrod. 224 pp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. $21.95. Omar Bradley was the cautious general. He avoided unnecessary risks and a...
WWII Book Reviews: Pacifist, Pundit Blame Churchill for War
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization By Nicholson Baker. 576 pp. Simon & Schuster, 2008. $30. Churchill,...
Fallen Vietnam Pilots, Crew Honored with Monument at Arlington National Cemetery
More than 40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, helicopter pilots and crew members killed in action during the conflict have been honor...
The Italian Impostor Who Conned FDR
Virgilio Scattolini may not have been the biggest liar ever to walk the face of the earth. But he was certainly the biggest liar ever to hav...
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