Calling all Readers – MHN wants your Living History Pics and Video

Last week, I changed the site from “This Is War Blog” to “Military History Now”. This week, I’m launching a brand new section called “Living History” — and I’m counting on the growing legion of…

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Immigrant Armies – The ‘Multicultural’ American Civil War

“During the first half of the 19th century, waves of newcomers from Europe streamed into America, all in search of land, opportunity and a life free from strife and persecution. Sadly, the peace they dreamed of…

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Psych Ops – Meet the Top Secret “Ghost Army” of WW2

On April 1, we told you about some of the most famous wartime deceptions in history from the legendary Trojan horse to dummy cannons called Quaker guns. What we didn’t tell you about was the…

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What Lies Beneath — Is a Strange Object on the Bottom of a Canadian Lake Really a WW2 U-boat?

“Many from Labrador maintain that the recently discovered object is a Nazi sub that, according to local folklore, slipped into the inlet during the early 1940s and was somehow lost.” THERE’S SOMETHING large and mysterious…

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Centuries of Bloodshed — Chechnya’s Long History of Unrest

FOLLOWING FRIDAY’S revelation that the perpetrators of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings originally hailed from Chechnya, the media has been serving up something of a refresher course on the troubled republic, which sits on Russia’s southern…

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They Might Be Giants – Conquerors Who Earned The Nickname “The Great”

What do Frederick II of Prussia, the Frankish monarch Charles I, Emperor Constantine I of Rome, and Catherine II of Russia all have in common? Plenty, it turns out. All presided over huge triumphant armies….

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