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#1 The 2,500 survivors of Battle Group Lammerding were ordered to move to France and form part of the Das Reich division. They were leaving behind their few remaining tanks, vehicles, and guns, as well as the memory of thousands of their dead in frozen graves.
#2 The 2nd SS Das Reich Armored Division was not a shadow of its former self when it arrived in Bordeaux from...
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#1 In 1913, it was Belgium where the force fields of European integration most overlapped. The medieval Flemish city of Ghent hosted the Exposition Universelle et Internationale, as had Brussels a few years before.
#2 The age of empire, and Belgium's role in it, can be seen in the 1913 World's Fair in Ghent, which was hosted by a Belgian king. The gold and white exhibition...
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#1 In 2010, two small SUV's and a four-door pickup truck headed down a dirt road in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. They had set out soon after midnight, traveling cross-country to reach Highway 1, which would lead them to Kandahar and north to Kabul.
#2 The video was being watched at Hurlburt Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle by a dedicated team of young...
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Book Preview: #1 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president in 1961. He was young and optimistic, and he projected that he was ready to chart a new course for his country and the world. He wanted to pass the torch of moral leadership to Frost, who wrote a poem specifically for the inauguration.
#2 Kennedy's vision was to create a new America, based on liberty, that would be brought...
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#1 The end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945 brought about a dilemma for the Allies. They wanted to punish the German nation, but they didn't want to make the Nazis seem like martyrs.
#2 The Allied powers decided that Germany needed to renounce its past, and to do that, they needed to help in its rebuilding. However, they did not send in Einsatzgruppen death...
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#1 Simo Häyhä was a Finnish farmer who fought in the Winter War. He was known as the Snow Hunter, as he enjoyed snow skiing, hunting, and shooting. He died on April 1, 2002 in the Kymi Institute for Disabled War Veterans, in the town of Hamina.
#2 Simo Häyhä, a member of the Rautjärvi Civil Guard, was a top-notch marksman who won several prizes in Civil Guard regional...
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#1 The Baltic Project was never carried out, but many of the ships for it were built, including three light cruisers named Furious, Courageous, and Glorious. Their names were reversed commas.
#2 The ships had eighteen 4-inch BLIX guns in six Mark I triple mountings, twelve on each broadside, two 3-inch high-angle guns, four 3-pounder Hotchkiss saluting guns, five Maxim...
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#1 The year 1915 was disastrous for the Allies and the entire world. By the mistakes of this year, the opportunity was lost to confine the fire within limits that were not uncontrollable.
#2 The Battle of the Marne was a complete deadlock between the great combatants in the West by land and by sea. The German fleet remained sheltered in its fortified harbours, and the...
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#1 In 1986, the nuclear physicist Stanislav Shushkevich thought the institute's reactor was bleeding radiation. It was in people's hair and clinging to their clothes. It was near danger levels at the front door.
#2 When someone finally called the institute to report an accident at Chernobyl, it was already too late. The graphite core of the massive, concrete-encased...
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#1 The American anticipation of a new war between the United States and the USSR was reinforced by the balance of forces in Europe in the 1950s. The Soviets' advantage in troop strength and geographical position gave it powerful leverage in Eastern Europe.
#2 The use of Nazis and collaborators in intelligence programs has left a mark on life in the United States...
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#1 The German commander on Crete, General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, had a difficult time explaining what happened to his fellow commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. Kreipe had been captured by a British raiding force and taken off the island.
#2 The Butcher was suspicious that the general had been grabbed after he left the city, but his car was found only a twenty-minute...
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#1 The first known writings on the subject of war were narratives, poems that had been put down such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric poems. They were intended to record and glorify events that may or may not have taken place.
#2 The Chinese viewed war as both a necessary evil and a temporary departure from cosmic harmony. By definition, dao can only be...
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#1 America is facing an epidemic of gun-related suicides, accidents, and even homicides and police killings. The more guns a society has, the more gun deaths it will experience.
# America was founded on racism and slavery, and both were made possible by the gun. Without guns, neither would have been as easy to accomplish.
#3 The history of America is soaked...
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#1 The Battle for Merchant Shipping was a campaign of attrition between the British merchant fleet and the German U-boats. If German U-boat captains torpedoed and sank more Allied ships than the British shipyards could replace, the Germans would achieve a tightening stranglehold on Britain's supplies.
#2 The Battle of the Atlantic was the struggle between the German...
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#1 The airmen who fought in World War II were volunteers, and they were from nearly every town, city, and state in America. They were the sons of the elite, the impoverished, and everyone in between. They all volunteered to fight the war in the air against America's enemies.
#2 The Army General Classification Test, given to all recruits, was a forty-minute written exam...
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#1 The Belfast brigade had been lying low, recovering from a string of successful British raids based on intelligence from 'touts'-what the PIRA turncoats were called. They were ready to act as they had just finished training a new urban sniper cell.
#2 The group met at a pub, but not Reilley's. Reilley's was just the code word for meeting at a prearranged location....
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#1 The opening years of the twentieth century seemed to promise continued Victorian peace, prosperity, and progress. But the century would soon be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, the end of a century of Pax Britannica, and all its optimistic assumptions.
#2 The Boxer Rebellion, which took place in China in 1900, was a demonstration of the strength of the...
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#1 The Anglo-American Establishment was a plan drawn up by three men in London in 1891 to take over foreign policy control in Britain and the United States. It aimed to renew the Anglo-Saxon bond between Great Britain and the United States, and expand the British Empire's influence.
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#1 The first machine gun was invented by Hiram Maxim in London in 1883. It was a device that discharged six cartridges automatically, on a single trigger pull. The date can be deduced from patent number 3493, which Maxim registered on 16 July 1883 for an invention of improvements in machine or battery guns, and in cartridges for the same and other firearms.
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#1 I had always been interested in the military, and World War II was starting to heat up. I was poring over books about the Civil War at my Great-aunt Myra's in Kennedy, New York. When England and France declared war on Germany in September 1939, I thought we would soon become involved.
#2 I was only fifteen when I enlisted in the Army in 1940, and I was homesick. I...
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