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The Capital of Ruins – Nine Facts About the Battle for Saint-Lô
“German generals would later say it was during the fight for places like Saint–Lô where they ‘lost the war.’” By Ted Neill WHAT SEEMS inevitable in hindsight often isn’t in the present moment. Such was…
Farewell Letters of the Kamikaze — It Was Love, Not Fanaticism, That Drove Many of Japan’s Suicide Pilots
“Behind every kamikaze pilot taking off for certain death was an ordinary human being, often with a wife or sweetheart back home.” By George Yagi Jr. NEARLY 4,000 JAPANESE pilots volunteered for suicide missions in…
The Battle of Ayn Jalut — The Day the Mamelukes Stopped the Mongol Advance and Saved Western Civilization
“All empires over-reach and inevitably decline. That moment came for the Mongols in 1260 at the Battle of Ayn Jalut.” By Jem Duducu AT THE PEAK of their power, the Mongols controlled the largest land-based empire in history,…
Operation Cowboy – How American GIs & German Soldiers Joined Forces to Save the Legendary Lipizzaner Horses in the Final Hours of WW2
“The efforts to rescue the Lipizzaners would end with battle-weary American GIs standing shoulder-to-shoulder with German troops to fight a common enemy – the Waffen-SS.” IT WAS APRIL 28, 1945. The war in Europe was…
For ‘Land, Captures and Prize Money’ — How an Army of Irish Volunteers Helped Topple Spain’s American Empire
“Officers who could raise units were offered loot, plantations and glory by the Venezuelan government. For the ordinary soldiers, the promise of a parcel of fertile land with which to begin a new life in…
“The Unknown Face” – Museum Digitally Blends Portraits of Thousands of WW1 Soldiers Into Single Image
“It carries a universal message of peace with the synthesis of a multitude of faces, of lives carried away in the whirlwind of the Great War.” FRANCE’S Historial de la Grande Guerre is marking the…
