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Confederate Ironclad vs. Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862 by Ron Field, Osprey, 2008, $17.95 Osprey’s “Duel” series pits notable opposing forces in military history against each other. The focus here is on the well-known May 1862 clash between the nimble USS Monitor and the lumbering CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va. The book offers few …
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A Day of Blizzard and BloodThe crown was at stake when, on a late winter day in 1461, two rival armies clashed in the bloodies battle on English soil. England’s Wars of the Roses were two struggles in one. T… Read MoreHallowed Ground: Fort Monroe, VirginiaCoastal Virginia is seamed by tidal rivers, marshes and creeks that feed into and are fed by Chesapeake Bay, which in turn flows into the Atlantic Ocean. One fragile spit of land s… Read MoreQueen’s RansomHow Hawaii’s indebted last queen lost her throne to sugar barons and the American rush to empire
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… Read MoreThe U.S. Marines’ Mythic Fight at Belleau WoodPiercing the fog of war to separate legend from fact. Many historians consider the June 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood the defining event in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. As t… Read MoreThe Prophet of Sea PowerIn 1890 Alfred Thayer Mahan published a book that transformed naval theory—and unleashed the world’s great fleets. Democracies are good at war for many of the same reasons they are… Read More
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