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Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship By Richard Aldous; W.W. Norton Books scoping out the thorny alliance between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher have filled library shelves for 30-odd years. The latest—Richard Aldous’ Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship—arrives as The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep, has generated renewed interest in the rise of British …
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Shooting Down a LegendDespite its enduring fame, the Red Baron’s slow, crash-prone Fokker triplane was no great fighting machine. High over La Neuville airfield in occupied France, October 30, 1917, a l… Read More1939 Polish Cavalry vs. German PanzersThe real story is far more interesting than the enduring Nazi-promulgated myth. On September 1, 1939, German land, air, and sea units struck targets all across Poland. Although it … Read More‘A Madman’s Business’Death was everywhere at Cold Harbor in 1864, but the point of the killing and the war itself seemed lost. THE REVERED CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN and writer Bruce Catton won a Pulitzer Pri… Read MoreEveryman’s Gun- The AK-47How Cold War politics made the AK-47 the world’s most ubiquitous gun. Plus—Fidel, Saddam, and the history of automatic weapons. One weapon alone has been a consistent presence in m… Read MoreTo Catch a TraitorRecruited by George Washington to kidnap the turncoat Benedict Arnold, John Champe had to join the British himself to trap his man. On September 25, 1780, George Washington was sch… Read More
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