Military History

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Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships. ...more

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

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Quotes Tagged “Military History”

“ Sometimes a man befriends his worst enemies in order to achieve victory over those enemies. ”
― John J. McBrearty, COMBAT JOURNAL: A Soldier's Journey to Hell, Part 3 of 4

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“ Deep down there is the feeling that what we participated in was morally wrong, and can never be looked upon as legitimate. We can make all kinds of excuses, but it can never justify the murder, the savagery and the barbarism that was inflicted on the Vietnamese people under the guise of saving the world from communism. ”
― Terry Burstall, The Soldiers' Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966

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