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Outcasts No Longer Anywhere else they might have been heroes—the 5,000 Irish soldiers who volunteered to join British and American forces fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. They landed at Normandy, liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and endured torture as prisoners of Japan. But back home in the Republic of Ireland, these soldiers were branded …
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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 MoreEurope’s Powder KegWhen small Balkan nations took on Ottoman Turkey, they lit the fuze of world war. On Nov. 17, 1912, a 22-year-old American adventurer and would-be war correspondent named Henry Wes… Read MoreHallowed Ground: Balaklava, UkraineI had read accounts of the October 1854 Battle of Balaklava— the most famous combat action of the Crimean War—since my childhood. I knew the theory of how Britain’s Light Brigade h… Read MoreZhukov: What Made Him Great?Tough, tenacious and a master of combined-arms warfare, he was also adept at politics and publicity. What made Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov a great general? Simply put, he was the… 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 More
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