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The 1906 bout pitted the ‘Old Master’ against the ‘Durable Dane’ A massive crowd descended on Goldfield, Nevada, on Labor Day 1906. People arrived by train from as far away as Maine and Massachusetts, while the region’s miners reached Goldfield by trudging the desert for miles. Such a swell in population was unusual, as Goldfield’s …
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Invisible Coup: A Failed Attempt to Assassinate HitlerThough a notorious scheme to kill Hitler failed, the plot had stunning—if brief— success in Paris. Paris was stuffy that day in late July 1944. Overhead, thunder cracked. Colonel E… Read MoreThe High Price of Valor: Sam DealeySubmariner Sam Dealey achieved the hunter-killer ideal, but success at sea cost him his life. The pinging started in at 5:32 a.m. on August 24, 1944, a signal to two U.S. Navy subm… Read MoreProfiles in Cold Steel: The Making of TanksIn making tanks, countries revealed their national personalities—and sealed their fates. Elusive Insights on Factory Floors TANKS HAVE LONG BEEN A FAVORITE topic of World War II hi… Read MoreBook Review: Hiroshima NagasakiHIROSHIMA NAGASAKI: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath By Paul Ham. 640 pp. St. Martin’s, 2014. $35. Sometimes revisionist history is a revelation; sometimes… Read MoreThe Curious Case of the Turncoat NavigatorAs time was running out, something happened on Mindanao…but what? IN AUGUST 1945, despite their hopeless military situation, many Imperial Japanese Army units fought on. On the Phi… Read More
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