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HOW METZ GAVE PATTON A BLOODY NOSE
21 May 2016 For those, like this writer, who esteem the arts of modern fortification, Metz is the Florence of military architecture. I greet the spring each year in Metz. This imposing city combines...
View ArticleSUEZ: THE END OF EUROPE’S EMPIRES
26 November 2016 Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New York’s Central Park West, reading a history of Rome and listening to Dvorak’s splendid cello concerto when...
View ArticleJAPAN’S ‘NOBILITY OF FAILURE’ IN 1941
10 December 2016 Seven decades after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor some truth is finally beginning to emerge from the miasma of propaganda that still clouds our vision of World War II. It...
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