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When John Brown seized Harpers Ferry and threatened to spark a slave insurrection, officials in Washington concluded only one man could stop him: Colonel Robert E. Lee. Depending on your source, John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid was the prelude to or the catalyst of the American Civil War. Yet for the small group of …
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WWII Book Review: Hitler’s PanzersHitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare By Dennis Showalter. 400 pp. Berkley, 2009. $25.95. The German army’s blitzkrieg and the tanks that carried it o… Read MoreThis Strange Britisher’: Orde Wingate in EthiopiaEccentric guerrilla warfare pioneer Orde Wingate helped the British drive the Italians out of Ethiopia in 1941. It was the moment Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie had dreamed of si… Read MoreWWII Book Review: Hell to PayHell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–47 By D. M. Giangreco. 363 pp. Naval Institute Press, 2009. $36.95. Readers of military history who seek tales of he… Read MoreSpy Class 101In an obscure corner of Canada, British secret agents introduced American operatives to warfare’s dark arts. On November 21, 1941, the SS Pasteur, a former French luxury liner now … Read MoreWWII Book Review: Rommel’s Desert WarRommel’s Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943 By Martin Kitchen. 616 pp. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $38. Arguably the most provocative reassessment of … Read More
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