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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 The Second World War was the first war in which air power played a major role. The generation of Army airmen who came of age in the 1930s were enthralled by the theories of the Italian and American generals, Giulio Douhet and Billy Mitchell, who saw air power as the decisive force in wars of the future.
#2 The history of the A-bomb is the history of the generals...
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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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#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 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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Get the Summary of Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy's The Unit in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Unit" by Adam Gamal and Kelly Kennedy is a gripping account of Gamal's journey from a vegetable vendor in Alexandria, Egypt, to a key member of the US military's most secretive unit. The narrative follows Gamal's life, starting with his childhood in a culturally rich Alexandria, his family's emphasis on education and...
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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 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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#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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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 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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Book Preview: #1 A group of women in white headscarves sat sewing at long wooden tables, heads bent over garments, needles in, needles out. They were sewing clothes for the wives of high-ranking men from the Auschwitz SS garrison. Men notorious for beatings, torture, and mass murder.
#2 The forces that converged to create a fashion salon in Auschwitz were also responsible for shaping...
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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 choice of William Westmoreland as commander of American forces in Vietnam was a fateful one. He was chosen from a slate of four candidates presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The others were General Harold K. Johnson, who instead became Army Chief of Staff, General Creighton Abrams, who was assigned as Vice Chief of Staff to Johnson, and General Bruce Palmer,...
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#1 On the morning of 22 June 1941, Dmitri Likhachev, a scholar of medieval Russian literature, was sunbathing with his wife and daughters on the sand martin-busy banks of the River Oredezh. They overheard snatches of a terrifying conversation about Kronshtadt being bombed.
#2 The Leningraders were better prepared for the Second World War than other Soviet citizens,...
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#1 I had been commissioned as Sub-Lieutenant in 1926, and in 1939 I was enjoying foreign service leave after returning from a two-year commission in command of the destroyer Defender on the China Station. I had spent the past thirteen years of service divided between destroyers and the Fleet Air Arm, two branches of the Navy that were ideally suited to give me the training...
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#1 I had been awake since dawn and had breakfasted lightly, for I was too excited to feel hungry. I had left London that morning, on my way to Spain and the Civil War. I had no idea how to carry out my decision. I knew no Spanish, and I had never been to Spain.
#2 I was going to Spain to fight in the war. My father, a retired Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, disapproved...
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#1 In 1926, Hitler had centralized the SA men of all NSDAP districts under Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. In 1930, he had to give in to the pressure of the trouble-makers and sacrificed Pfeffer von Salomon. He appointed himself the Supreme SA-Führer in his place.
#2 I was assigned to the Nazi economics office, the WPA, in 1931. I did not like the mysterious partner Dr....
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#1 Greenland's name is often blamed on a Viking named Erik the Red, who exiled himself from nearby Iceland in the year 982 after he killed two men in a neighborhood dispute. He named his discovery Greenland in the belief that a good name would encourage his countrymen to settle there with him. But the ploy didn't work.
#2 Greenland is the world's loneliest place. It...
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#1 The truth about military intelligence work is that much of it is based on chance and tenacity. It is rarely glamorous. However, in terms of the effort involved, the flight of the Anson with the two-man crew was far removed from the abortive Elint collection mission off the coast of Great Britain almost a year earlier.
#2 The Lorenz system was developed by the German...
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