Two days after slapping Kuhl, he writes a memo to each of his commanders, ordering them not to allow men suffering from combat fatigue to receive medical care. Such men are cowards and bring disgrace...
The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerv...
They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
Reagan’s victory notwithstanding, the landslide loss by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election makes it abundantly clear that conservative Republican values are falling out of fashion.
Changers
Boson
By 1933, when Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party assumed power in Germany, the military was divided between the Wehrmacht—the traditional army, navy, and air force of the German state—and the SS,...
To replace this loss of spirituality, millions of Europeans have embraced the secular concept of relativism. According to this way of thinking, there is no absolute truth, no certain right and wrong....
Throwback
Winston was in a self-described political wilderness for much of his career, and was considered out of touch with political reality, thanks to his criticism of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a time when f...
And building his own home into the slope of a Nazarene hill. But the young Jesus is not long for this small town. The holiness and magnificence of Jerusalem call to him. He comes to know the smells an...
Diplomacy by balance of fear.
For the first time in modern history, anti-Semitism became governmental policy.
From their lofty summits overlooking Boston Harbor and the city itself, the colonists can fire cannonballs—which is why the British have spent the last three weeks secretly plotting an invasion of the...
Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. You felt it to the point of physical illness, one German officer will later write. Nothing was authent...
He oversaw American forces in the Korean War,
I can be smart when it’s important, she replies, but most men don’t like it.
I had all my staffs, except for VIII Corps, in for a conference. As usual on the verge of an attack, they were full of doubt. I seemed always to be the ray of sunshine, and by God, I always am. We can...
His brain splattered all over the trunk of a car.
The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is not aggressively pursuing war crimes prosecutions. Instead, it is recruiting members of the Nazi Party to spy against the Soviet Union.
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