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In the fall of 1938, as Europe teetered on
the brink of war, a full-fledged blood feud was already underway
between two...
Been Winning So
Long, I've Lost It So we are a schizophrenic
culture of sorts, a nation of amateurs that can almost magically
transform itself into a culture of professional killers...
O Tempora, O Mores
Come September of 2008, six decades
will have passed since Lance Sharkey’s dream of a Communist Australia
died in a torrent of gunfire outside Parliament House...
An
Empire Reborn Part 4 Conservatives sweep the
elections in Britain as voters reject the Labour party for their
mishandling of the situation in Africa. Edward Heath, the new Prime
Minister calls for...
You May Fire
When Ready In the
aftermath of their defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War against Israel, the
Arab nations sought new ways of taking the battle to the Jewish state...
United Armenia Miatsyal Hayastan (updated) What if
… the Armenian genocide had not been what it was in the OTL: a Turkish
success? The Turks and their Kurdish accomplices bled...
Shaken, Not Stirred Part 2
Diana Rigg seemed to
have been tailor-made for the role of Tanya Onatova. The British
actress radiated a cool sensuality that perfectly fit the
attractive...
Vereinigtes Armenien Miatsyal Hayastan (German Original)
Was wäre gewesen … wenn der Armeniergenozid nicht das
gewesen wäre, was er in der Realgeschichte war: ein türkischer Erfolg?
From Allegheny To Flatbush To
Hollywood When J.P. Morgan
founded the American League in 1882, he had intended that Pittsburgh
should be home to one of the new league’s...
Hitting Back:
The Autobiography
Book Review
The Man With The Iron Heart
Book Review
Sidewise, Side Foolish III
The 5 Best and 5 Worst AH
Premises Chris Oakley Has
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Operation Unicorn
Series
Volume XI The reports from XII Corps were not good
but General Brusilov tried to comfort himself with the notion that
they could be worse. After a sluggish start the Austrian pursuit had
become more determined in the afternoon...
Volume XII Continuing its successful Picardy
offensive the British Second Army captured the important town of Crecy
yesterday afternoon. It appears that Second Army has achieved a clean
breakthrough of the formidable German line of fortifications...
Volume XIII Together with Oberst Hell, his chief of
staff, the new commander of Center army, General Alexander von
Linsingen went over the plans for attack on the Russian Eleventh Army
and the capture of Lemberg...
Volume XIV The German Under Secretary of State,
Arthur Zimmerman, signed the secret treaty. Then Sir Roger Casement
did likewise. Under its terms the Irish prisoners of war who
voluntarily joined the Brigade would be equipped and provisioned by
the German Army...
Volume XV The First Lord was meeting with the
Admiralty War Group. The first topic of discussion was the sinking of
the AMC, HMS Hilary off the Faeroes, which had occurred
yesterday afternoon...
Volume XVI Upon learning of Spee’s wireless message
from Sayville, Admiral von Tirpitz had insisted that Admiral Bachman
call an emergency meeting of the Admiralstab. Admirals von Ingenohl
and Hipper were summoned to the meeting...
Volume XVII It was a cold winter morning. General
Bruno von Mudra observed the assault by 33rd Infantry
Division from the top of the butte at Vauquois. The German XVII Army
Corps had seized this important high ground back in September...
Volume XVIII The chief engineer shook his head
vigorously, "We can manage 14 knots maximum for any continued time,
admiral. Maybe 15 knots for a short period if there is a battle."
Spee’s melancholia increased another notch...
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