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Infantry, cavalry, and artillery begin slogging
A fiery horse, with a speed of light—a cloud of dust, a hearty laugh, The Lone Ranger is perhaps the most attractive figure ever to come out of the West.
American Sniper
And what’s happened to you? Patton asks the young man. His name is Pvt. Paul Bennett. He has been in the army four years, serving with C Battery of the Seventeenth Field Artillery Regiment. He is just...
Ask not what your country can do for you, he commands, his voice rising to deliver the defining sentence, but what you can do for your country.
Audacity, audacity, always audacity—a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations.
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness...
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Civilians! they read in Japanese. Evacuate at once! These leaflets are being dropped to notify you that your city has been listed for destruction by our powerful air force. This advance notice will gi...
Cole Younger led eight men into Russellville, Kentucky, on May 20, 1868, and rode out with exactly $9,035.92. As the gang made its escape, shooting into the air to discourage gawkers, one member shot...
Early American history has been told—and often exaggerated—by the pen and the paintbrush. Daniel Boone’s fame as a bear hunter is depicted by Severino Baraldi (above), while this portrait of the lone...
Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You are on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to your...
For now, Patton keeps his comments to himself. Volatile words could get him fired - or even killed. Patton is a man of strong beliefs, and as he will tell the press in a few weeks, he is utterly sure...
Franklin Roosevelt’s biggest love is reserved for the American people, whom he has led through twelve daunting years of deprivation and warfare.
George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Hitler specifically chooses Carlyle’s book because it was the eminent Scottish historian who set forth the Great Man theory of history, which states that the history of the world is but a biography of...
Hitler spends more time at the Wolf’s Lair than in Berlin—some eight hundred days in the last three years alone. The Führer is fond of saying that his military planners chose the most marshy, mosquito...
I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends … Farewell, David Crockett. His
Immediately after the war, a group of Jewish partisans known as the Nokmim traveled throughout Germany and Austria hunting down former members of the SS. Also known as the Avengers, this band of merce...
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