This is awful, but I suspect we're missing the point: The Republican nominee for Congress for Ohio's 9th District, Rich Iott, played a Nazi for years as part of a re-enactment group, reveals the Atlantic's Joshua Green. Iott was involved in a group that calls...
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Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least.
This is nothing short of genius: But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes.
I finally watched Valkyrie this week, and I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. Unlike many critics, I thought that Cruise did a solid job as Stauffenberg; within the parameters of the film it's an uncomplicated role, and Cruise played it...
This is one reason why Europeans understand war differently than Americans: An Allied bomb left over from World War II has exploded in Germany, killing three military engineers who were.
Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev's handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and.
Not much would have changed, according to Mark Grimsley. The Spanish would have seized Gibraltar with German assistance, which would have complicated the Allied war effort in the Mediterranean, but the impact on other fronts would have been limited. Post-civil war Spain simply lacked the...
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally.
Your Sunday morning surrender ceremony:I still look forward to the day that Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar surrender on board the USS Ronald Reagan...
I have a review of Vincent O'Hara's Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.
This is kind of interesting; the argument is that FDR may have been suffering from cancer during the 1944 Presidential campaign. The evidence of illness, they suggest, was covered up.
Condoleeza Rice explaining why the use of harsh interrogation techniques was justified against Al Qaeda suspects, but not World War II German POWs: With all due respect, Nazi Germany never.