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#1 The Liberation complex is when prisoners of Hitler's fallen Reich, who were expected to be grateful and cooperative, were instead exultant and revengeful. It was not limited to DP camps, but was also applied to entire countries newly liberated.
#2 The Dutch women were in a state of frenzy, like teenage girls at a rock concert. They couldn't help themselves. They were...
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#1 The battle continued to wind down as the sun set. The smaller enemy began to probe us using three-to six-person elements. I was scanning the intersection twenty-five meters to my left and then back to the corner of the alley about twenty-five meters to my right front. It was quiet-too quiet.
#2 During a raid, I shot two of the gunmen dead, and the third fled down...
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#1 The pressure of sniper school is mostly mental. You have to be in top physical condition, but you also have to absorb complex skill sets and execute them flawlessly at a machine-gun pace under conditions of constantly increasing intensity.
#2 In the field, your life can depend on making the shot. Out here on the range, it was just our careers on the line. We had to...
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#1 The German invasion of Belgium began on 5 August, when 2nd and 4th Cavalry Divisions crossed the Meuse River at Liège and headed toward the Dutch-Belgian border. They encountered many Belgian troops who were dug in east and south-west of Tirlemont. The Germans decided to outflank them to the north, and the two divisions were temporarily disengaged and pulled back...
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#1 The Japanese Fleet had not been deployed in strength since the Battle of the Coral Sea, two years earlier. The American Pacific offensive had converged in two mighty thrusts aimed at the Philippines, flanking them from the east and south. The landing in the Philippines would be unlike any other American landings.
#2 The landings on Morotai and Peleliu went ahead as...
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#1 I was appointed First Lieutenant of the Vega, a World War I destroyer, which was being converted to anti-aircraft and antisubmarine escort duties. The start was in the best traditions. The commissioning ceremony went well, but the rain began to fall as soon as the official inspection of the ship was finished.
#2 The ship's company and the dockyard workers, who were...
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#1 On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a satellite that would circle the Earth every ninety minutes. It was a huge announcement, and everyone knew that nothing would ever be the same again.
#2 When news of Sputnik broke, there was only one response from General Medaris: Those damn bastards! The way he said it, no one knew whether he was talking about...
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#1 I went to Submarine School, New London, where I underwent physical and psychological tests to determine my aptitude for submarines. I was certain I had failed. The tests were far above the average for the Navy.
#2 The submarine escape-training tank was similar to the rescue bell. It could rescue eight people at a time. The equipment used in the tank was similar to...
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#1 The two sides of the tower visible from our position never changed their appearance: the front was a wide expanse of black and twisted window frames, the southern side a concrete Emmental of shellholes from tanks. The Serbs shot it to ribbons the next morning.
#2 I knew if I went to Bosnia, I would not have much money with me, so I asked the Serb restaurant in Notting...
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#1 On March 18, 1942, 82 days out of Manila, a small, green schooner entered the port of Fremantle in Western Australia. Its name was Lanikai, and its captain was to be my commanding officer.
#2 The president's order was to be executed as soon as possible and in two days if possible. I reported for final instructions. Open these orders when you are clear of Manila Bay,...
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#1 The Art of War, written over two thousand years ago by a Chinese warrior-philosopher, is still the most influential book of strategy in the world today. It applies to competition and conflict on every level from the interpersonal to the international.
#2 The Art of War is the premier classic of the Chinese science of strategy. It was written over two thousand...
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#1 The six men were wedged into the aircraft's narrow hold like the proverbial sardines in a tin. They were prepared for the long flight ahead, and their commander, Trevor Alan Gordon Pritchard, was a ten-year Army veteran and a tough-as-old-boots regular.
#2 The first British airborne raid was codenamed Operation Colossus, and it was led by Tait. The Whitley aircraft...
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#1 The bomber dream was the hope of air force commanders that their bomber aircraft would be the main instruments of winning future wars. The seeds had been sown in the First World War, when air commanders took planes away from the direct support of the field armies and sent them deep behind the enemy lines.
#2 The American bomber dream was based on the belief...
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#1 On February 25, 1986, 5,000 delegates attended the Communist Party Congress in Moscow. They were to chart a new course for the country for the next five years. The economy had slowed, and the possibility of a complete breakdown was becoming more and more likely.
#2 In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was in crisis, and their party leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, needed...
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#1 The story of gunpowder's development into a deadly technology is a vital part of global history. It's also fascinating and bizarre. Early gunpowder weapons were not like the weapons we think we know, such as cannons and muskets.
#2 The Chinese were the first to experiment with gunpowder weapons, and it was during this period that the process of developing...
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#1 The weather was now the enemy's friend, and it was two days before USSTAF headquarters was able to set the teleprinters to Groups chattering again as Spaatz seized a brief break in the conditions to despatch a force of more than 1,100 bombers. Their aim was to wreck seven marshalling yards.
#2 The crew's mission was the marshalling yard at Giessen, north of Frankfurt....
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#1 Each nation organized its armed forces to fit the strategies that it expected to use to secure its intended national objectives. The pre-war development of artillery techniques and technology reflected these assumptions.
#2 The Germans had planned to attack France head-on in 1870, but the French had upgraded their defenses and increased their army size to fill...
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#1 The invasion force was made up of the 1st Marine Division, which was to land on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and the small islands of Tanambogo and Gavutu. The covering and transport forces were supplied by the US Navy with the reinforcement of Australian warships.
#2 The tactical command of the invasion forces approaching Guadalcanal in early August was vested in Vice Admiral...
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Book Preview: #1 Iceal Gene Hambleton had ached to get away from the listless plains of Illinois his entire life. But he was born into a farming family, and his father discouraged dreaming in him and his brothers.
#2 Gene, the eldest son of Iceal Sr., grew up to be a very different person than his father. He was funny, mischievous, and defiant, and he loved pranks. He grew up resenting...
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Book Preview: #1 The most enduring and tenacious iteration of America's World War II myth is the decription that the United States went to war to liberate the world from fascism and tyranny.
#2 The first tenet of American exceptionalism, which claims that the consequences of our intervention are equivalent to the causes we fight for, ignores the timing and proximate catalyst of our...
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