War History Network members are familiar many War II tales but one that is frequently overlooked is told in We Band Of Angels. It contains the story of 99 American nurses trapped on Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese conquest of 1942.
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Read more…War History is not solely made on the battlefields. The meetings that lay the plans for victory are as much a part of the story as the shot and shell. Allied plans for World War II and its sequalae were formulated in a series of conferences invol
Read more…Not all war history centers on the battlefield. The home front has its own contributions. “Women Remember the War” is a fascinating collection of oral histories of 25 Wisconsin women who lived through World War II. It consists of edited version
Read more…Foreign enemies can unite political foes. One such instance is chronicled in All Behind You Winston: Churchill’s Great Coalition 1940-45. This volume documents the consensus and disputes, initiatives advanced and those deferred, and the leaders o
Read more…Karl Von Clausewitz, a renowned Prussian general and military theorist, once famously stated, "War is the continuation of politics by other means." To understand war then, one must go behind the frontlines into the political realm to the people an
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War History is not limited to the exploits of generals, admirals and GI Joes. As von Clausewitz remarked “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” As War History Readers know, war is admixed with domestic
Read more…A friend brought The Longest Winter to my attention. It documents the exploits of World War II’s most decorated American platoon, the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. When the Battle of th
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