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Little Shots — Meet the Cold War’s Smallest Nukes
“In the event of a shooting war in Europe between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, allied commanders fully expected to use hundreds, even thousands, of the small 50-pound projectiles.” THE SOVIET TSAR Bomba is remembered as the…
The Business Plot – Did American Billionaires Really Plan a Fascist Coup?
“A coalition of America’s wealthiest industrial magnates allegedly hatched a scheme to topple the Roosevelt Administration.” DONALD TRUMP ADDED a touch of levity to the U.S. Presidential election last November, albeit unintentionally. As the major news…
Bloody First Contact – When Vikings Clashed with Native North Americans
“Almost as soon as the Norsemen hauled their long boats onto the beaches, fighting broke out with the local inhabitants.” MANY POINT TO the Jamestown Massacre of 1622 as the first clash between European settlers and…
The Nauru War — Inside the Smallest Armed Conflict in History
“The feud might have fizzled out in short order had the island not been awash in traded rifles, booze and quarrelsome Europeans — instead it raged for years.” WITH ONLY eight square miles of territory, the…
Declarations of War – Why Do So Many Countries Fight Without Them?
“The overwhelming majority of armed conflicts fought in the past 300 years have been undeclared.” IN ITS NEARLY 250 years of existence, the United States has only fought in five formally declared wars. These include both…
Historical Fiction — Author Takes On Britain’s Wartime Mythology
One of the more enduring symbols of Great Britain during the Second World War is the Home Guard — those aging citizen soldiers dressed in ill-fitting surplus uniforms training to take on Nazi panzers with…
