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X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman, Zenith Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 2014, $30 Like the X-15 itself, this book is spectacular. John Anderson and Richard Passman, who have aeronautical engineering backgrounds and hands-on experience developing high-speed platforms, treat readers to an …
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Valor: A Multitude of HeroesLieutenant John Chard Royal Engineers Victoria Cross Rorke’s Drift, Natal January 22 and 23, 1879 Queen Victoria called the 1879 British defense of Rorke’s Drift “immortal,” and a … Read MoreWhat We Learned: from the Kasserine PassThe February 1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass marked the first serious confrontation between America’s amateur army and Germany’s professional Wehrmacht— specifically the elite Af… Read MoreThe Persian FallacyIn the hit fantasy action film 300 the valiant Greeks defending the pass at Thermopylae in 480 BC are portrayed as the epitome of heroic manliness. Their Persian opponents, on the … Read MoreGrant: What Made Him Great?A reluctant soldier, the Union general was a study in contrasts. Some thinkers work with a single fundamental idea, while others construct from a broad spectrum of insights and exp… Read MoreDecisions: Crossing the AndesFeats of brilliance and finesse have distinguished military history’s finest commanders and inspired many of their decisive victories. Often, however, it is the fundamental qualiti… Read More
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