Generally, the Allied didn’t rule out a German attack, but they assumed it would be a small operation or highly unlikely, due to a number of reasons, to quote an US historian:“It may be phrased this way: the enemy can still do something but he can’t do much; he lacks the men,...
On another occasion, a historian not in our field accused a distinguished military historian of outright misogny right in front of me, despite knowing we were friends–the same scholar whose praise led me to Isabel Hull’s fine work, and who has supported multiple junior scholars regardless of...
Generally, the Allied didn’t rule out a German attack, but they assumed it would be a small operation or highly unlikely, due to a number of reasons, to quote an US historian:“It may be phrased this way: the enemy can still do something but he can’t do much; he lacks the men,...
In response, historian Ed Howard has gone so far as to say, “It is inconceivable the U. S. Navy had the ability or reason to conceal such a disaster. They would most likely have conducted a court of inquiry to gather the facts and recommend corrective or punitive measures, as had ...
Can professionals who dish it out claim infirmity when the tables are turned? Ultimately the joke was on Donahue, because his mark turned out to be far more vulnerable than his dirty job would have suggested. The CBS4 cameraman who Donahue picked on was a louse’s louse. ...
British historian and journalist, Dan Jones, dives deep and wide in examining one of the most famous Catholic knight orders – the Knights Templar – in The Templars, The Rise and the Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors. Published in 2017, this book complements Jones’ earlier works, Th...
Hardin is a well-regarded historian and Texas researcher. He gives a vivid, but unbiased account of the Texas Revolution from its beginning in 1835 to the last battle, San Jacinto, in April of 1836. This version is based on years of research and calls together the accounts of various ...
though the time perhaps has not yet arrived wherein to judge the part played by tanks in the Great War, I feel that, whatever may be the insight and judgment of the eventual historian of the British Tank Corps, he will probably lack that essential ingredient of all true history—the witne...
though the time perhaps has not yet arrived wherein to judge the part played by tanks in the Great War, I feel that, whatever may be the insight and judgment of the eventual historian of the British Tank Corps, he will probably lack that essential ingredient of all true history—the witne...
and as a historian who once upon a time taught courses on the atomic bomb at the Air Force Academy, I have some knowledge and experience here. Those two “legs” of the nuclear triad, bombers and ICBMs, have long been redundant, obsolete, a total waste of taxpayer money — leaving asid...