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Guy Ritchie, the director behind the box-office hits “Sherlock Holmes” and “The Man From U.N.C.L.E,” has signed on to write and direct Paramount Pictures upcoming WWII film, “Ministry of Ungentlemanly … Read More
Prince William Forest Park has 37 miles of hiking trails—and a secret past. FOR THREE YEARS DURING WORLD WAR II, men roamed the woods of Prince William Forest Park near Triangle, … Read More
Despite an ugly clash of egos at the top, the Union Army’s 20th Corps proved in Georgia that eastern and western troops could find common ground in battle Although they … Read More
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of ‘Great Engineer’ Herbert Hoover’s faith in efficiency The October 1929 Wall Street collapse had left the American economy in ruins. After prolonged … Read More
In a staggered line, the nine saboteurs of Operation Gunnerside cut across the mountain slope. Instinct, more than the dim light of the moon, guided the young men. On skis, … Read More
Trump’s crowd-pleasing catchphrase is more than a century old On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump capped a months-long campaign against the legitimacy of the election in which he lost the … Read More
The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad, by Dennis Drabelle, St. Martin’s Press, New York, N.Y., 2012, $26.99 Showdowns … Read More
The Third Reich took elaborate steps to create a “Nazi culture,” mixing ideological fantasies with reality through grand propaganda spectacles, mass media and seemingly innocent elements of everyday culture like … Read More
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously observed that “battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost because of logistics.” Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe … Read More
Colin McIntyre was born in 1927 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Scottish parents had moved so that his father could take a job running a British cotton factory there. … Read More
