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• Books I Cant Wait to Read

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 143
  Mao: The Unknown Story The Moviegoer Southern Storm: Shermans March to the Sea Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works The Fabric of the Cosmos Books Im still trying to finish (law school cut in): Wisconsin Votes (fascinating thus far) Lincolns Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut On ...
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• Dec 7th, 1941, A Date That Will Live in Infamy

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 548
  On Dec. 9th, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak attack on our forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a result, America formally joined the war against the Axis powers. 2,402 American servicemen were killed and 1,282 were wounded. In memory of them. Bookmark to:
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• History Rewrite

  
  Jules Crittenden — Authority: 703
  The missing Japanese mini-sub mystery may have been cracked. LA Times Pearl Harbor article  lays out the circumstantial case for a sub that got into the harbor, scored hits on USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma, sank, and was inadvertantly dumped with other debris at sea. HotAir : Sixty-eight years later, we ...
  14 hours ago

• Footnote.com: WWII collection free in December

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 506
  Today, Footnote.com has opened its extensive WWII collection to free public access during December. In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, this largest WWII grouping, including the first-ever interactive USS Arizona Memorial, offers more than 10 million records, documents and photos from the National Archives. These resources ...
  21 hours ago

• Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809 by Stephen Taylor

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 123
  Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809 by Stephen Taylor This describes the loss of 14 East India company ships to storms or French as well as the British campaign to seize Mauritius. If youve read the naval fiction of Patrick Obrien you already know something about the individuals ...
  22 hours ago

• Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero by Adam Nicolson

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 123
  Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero by Adam Nicolson first off a confession I usually dont like attempts of societal reconstruction like this. I often find that their based on a limited look at primary sources. Sort of like trying to reconstruct American views on race by looking at the ...
  22 hours ago

• Sixty-Eight Years Ago Today

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 507
  Struck by a Japanese bomb, the forward magazines of the USS Arizona explode. The ruined hulk of the USS Arizona burns after the attack. Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United ...
  23 hours ago

• Never Forget

  
  2 Worlds Collide — Authority: 115
  December 7, 1941, a day which will forever live in infamy.  May we never forget the sacrifices, particular the ultimate ones, made by our military members in defense of our nation.At 7:58 AM, the alarm was heard: “Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not drill!”The USS West Virginia and the USS Tennessee on fire after ...
  23 hours ago

• Improbable: Ensign George Gay at Midway

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 434
  Midway was an improbable victory, but nothing was more improbable than what happened that day to Ensign George H. Gay.
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• John Woo’s Epic Film…Red Cliff. Civil War in Ancient China

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 110
  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that takes the visual depiction of battle to a new level ( Braveheart , Saving Private Ryan ).  John Woo’s epic film, Red Cliff, does just that. Based on the actual Battle of Red Cliffs (see the Red Cliff Wiki here ) that took place in the winter 208 CE, the film ...
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• Their balmy slumbers waked with strife

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  The Soldier in later Medieval England is a historical research project that seeks to challenge assumptions about the emergence of professional soldiery between 1369 and 1453. Theyve compiled impressive databases of tens of thousands of service records. These are perhaps of interest only to specialists; but the ...
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• M2 Browning machine gun

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 143
  M2 Browning machine gun John Browning testing his prototype .50 caliber heavy machine gun, circa 1919 .50 Cal M2 Browning 12.7mm The browning M2 machinegun M2 Browning .50 cal. Machine Gun @ heavy wapen range Afghanistan The M2 ...
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• My novel is a finalist in Dorchesters "Fresh Blood" contest!

  
  Midlist Writer — Authority: 112
  December is turning out to be a good month. Not only did a short story of mine get published, but my horror novel, A Fine Likeness , is one of ten finalists in Dorchester Publishings "Fresh Blood" contest. Grand prize: publication in mass market paperback and limited edition hardcover. Sweet! I knocked out a pile ...
  4 days ago

• In Search of Churchill: A Historians Journey by Martin Gilbert

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 123
  In Search of Churchill: A Historians Journey by Martin Gilbert covers in vignettes the authors work on the official biography of Churchill that ran to an astonishing 8 volumes. Gilbert writes engagingly if occasionally he seems to be a little too impressed with his abilities and contacts. I found the most ...
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• More WTF?!

  
  Strategist's Personal Library — Authority: 123
  A 90 year-old Medal of Honor winner is not allowed to have a flagpole in his yard.
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• A new world Alexander?

  
  Travels with Shiloh — Authority: 131
  I just finished listening to the audio version of Conquistador:  Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs .  Now, let me dispense with a couple of quibbles I had with some ancillary issues. First, the reader was adequate although he had a distracting habit of affecting a slight Spanish ...
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• Military History Quarterly Winter 2010 Table of Contents

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 434
  MHQ (Military History Quarterly): The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Winter 2010.
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• The Roman Empire Loses Its Grip at Adrianople in AD 378

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 434
  The AD 378 Gothic War between the eastern Roman emperor, Valens, and the Tervingi leader, Fritigern, showed the deep flaws in the Roman Empire that would lead to its downfall
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• A Patriot Missile Battalion’s April Fools’ Day Assault in Iraq

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 434
  A young army lieutenant in a Patriot missile battalion called to participate in the invasion of Iraq learns on the job during an April Fools Day foray
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• Ask MHQ: Why Wasn’t Davout at Waterloo?

  
  HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher — Authority: 434
  Instead of using Davout in the Waterloo campaign, Napoleon preferred to keep the Iron Marshal in the capital, fulfilling the three vital roles he was appointed to on April 30: minister of war, governor of Paris, and commander in chief of the national guard.
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