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Weapons and Warfare: “Thwarting Japanese Torpedo Planes”
“At his ornate palace in downtown Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, impeccably attired in formal clothing, was ready to receive a delegation of generals, admirals, and top government officials. Formal dress was reserved for special occasions.
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Weapons and Warfare: Quality versus Quantity?
“Although primarily a history of multiple failures, the German heavy fighting vehicles of World War II provided a multitude of challenges within the engineering problems of tank design and manufacture, and several technological exploits
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Weapons and Warfare – “The Iroquois and the European North American ‘empires’ I”
“The character of the French and British North American “empires” differed greatly. Although the French did war against the Iroquois, Natchez, Fox, and other tribes, they did not “conquer” New France; they merely paid
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Weapons and Warfare – “Lord Dunmore’s War”
“Frontiersmen came to dominate the West in the 1760s and early 1770s by sheer weight of numbers – and an unrestrained appetite for land. Because of the expense of garrisoning the frontier, the British
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Weapons and Warfare: Evaluating Armoured Warfare on The Eastern Front I
Popular Mythology “The Russo-German War in general, and armoured combat on the Eastern Front in particular, have remained popular subjects in English-language historiography of the Second World War for the past six decades. However,
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Weapons and Warfare: WHY HITLER WON A BATTLE BUT LOST THE WAR
“Once the immediate shock had passed, the search for explanations began. Why had Napoleon’s heirs fallen so quickly? Many Frenchmen chose to blame insidious Fifth Columnists: Nazi and Communist agents who had supposedly undermined
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