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The Kamikaze: Japan's Desperate Gamble
By late 1944, Japan was losing the war. The American advance across the Pacific was relentless. The Japanese navy had been crippled. Their air force was de…
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Military
By late 1944, Japan was losing the war. The American advance across the Pacific was relentless. The Japanese navy had been crippled. Their air force was de…
History
By August 1944, the Soviet army was approaching Warsaw. The Polish Home Army, the underground resistance, decided to act. They wanted to liberate their cap…
History
August 1944. The Allies were racing across France after the breakout from Normandy. The French Resistance, which had been waiting for this moment, rose up…
Rise of America
In July 1944, representatives of forty-four nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design the postwar internati…
History
After North Africa, the Allies invaded Italy. They expected a quick victory. Instead, they got a long, brutal slog up the peninsula. The Italian campaign l…
Rise of America
There is something remarkable about the fact that for decades, the best students and researchers from across the world have gotten on planes to come to the…
History
I spent a week in Normandy a few years ago. The beaches are peaceful now. Families build sandcastles where soldiers once crawled through a hail of bullets…