How the Civil War’s Most Brilliant Generals First Learned to Fight in the Mexican War

One of the more bitter ironies of the American Civil War is that so many of the senior commanders that led the opposing armies in the bloody four-year conflict were years earlier both West Point…

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Phantoms in the Trenches – Historian Explores the Supernatural Folklore of WW1

“Research delves into the supernatural folklore that was endemic to life in the trenches of the Western Front.” IT WAS A FROSTY NIGHT IN APRIL, 1917 when Cpl. Will Bird and two of his comrades from…

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New Book Explores Bizarre Final Battle of War in Europe

Take a handful of GIs, a group of surrendered German soldiers and some high-ranking French officials (along with their wives and mistresses), arm them all to the teeth and let them team up to defend…

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How a full moon cost the Confederacy its most valuable general

Sorry about running yet another item about the U.S. Civil War this week, but this story solves a mystery surrounding Confederate general Stonewall Jackson’s death and was just too interesting to pass up. Enjoy! Next to…

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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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Runners – The Untold Story of Wartime Desertion

Eddie Slovik was the first to admit that he wasn’t “cut out for combat duty.” And for a time, the U.S. Army agreed. The 24-year-old Detroit native was initially passed over for military service in World…

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