Week of May 9, 2016 Archives

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Monday, May 9
German Defeat a Failure of Intelligence
Williamson Murray, MHQ
How a Team of Poles Cracked 'Enigma'
Laurence Peter, BBC News
British Land Under German Boots
Samuel Chi, Historiat
Why Russia Has Different V-E Day
Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
'White Bird' Remains Aviation's Top Mystery
Aero News Network
Did Frenchmen Actually Beat Lindbergh?
Sebastian Moffett, WSJ
How China Got Its Stealth Technology
Peter Lee, Asia Times
Islamic Iran's First Murder of a Jew
Karmel Melamed, Jewish Journal
A Savage Bank Robbery Gone Bad
Shirlee Pigeon, Riverside Sheriffs
When Skyway Bridge Fell Into the Bay
Jean Heller, Tampa Bay Times
Tuesday, May 10
The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
John Hockenberry, MSNBC
Hoover's Obsession With Hunting Hitler
Amir Oren, Haaretz
Did Hitler Sign Off on Hess' Bizarre Mission?
Allan Hall, Daily Mail
Rudolf Hess' Descent Into Madness
Philip Gavin, History Place
End of Phoney War and Fall of France
Peter Chen, WWII Database
A Short History of the German Blitzkrieg
Uri Noy, 2 World War 2
Lessons from Luftwaffe's Rise and Fall
William Andrews, Air Power
UK's Strange Iceland Invasion
Edoardo Cicchinelli, Storia Islandese
The Genius of Stonewall
Jeffrey Williams, This Week in Civil War
What Stonewall Jackson's Arm Says
Adam Arenson, The Atlantic
Wednesday, May 11
How Mossad Nabbed Eichmann
Doron Geller, Jewish Virtual Library
Germany Knew Where Eichmann Was
David Crossland, Der Spiegel
Kamikazes as Japan's Last Resort
Peter Chen, World War II Database
Why Japan Fought to the Death
David Powers, BBC News
A Sword Attack on Tsar Nicholas II in Japan
Times of London
A Year in the Life of CSS Virginia
Encyclopedia Virginia
Bloody Fight on Hamburger Hill
Harry Summers, Vietnam Magazine
A Survivor's Tale From Everest Disaster
Makalu Gau, Mountain Zone
Why Sichuan Quake Was So Devastating
Jeanna Bryner, Live Science
The Lessons of ValuJet 592
William Langewiesche, The Atlantic
Thursday, May 12
How Maginot Line Failed France
Chris Trueman, History Learning Site
Air Component of French Collapse
Raul Colon, Century of Flight
Wehrmacht Pushes Red Army to Brink
Peter Chen, WWII Database
Austria's Own World War II Culpability
Robert Knight, BBC News
The 3 Marines Left Behind to Die
John Johnston, Cincinnati Enquirer
Mayaguez: Vietnam War's Last Battle
George Watson, Airforce Mag.
Indonesia's Shameful Race/Rape Riot
John Glionna, L.A. Times
John Paul II's Close Escape
Arnaud de Borchgrave, Washington Times
Stasi Files Implicates KGB in Pope Assassination
Deutsche Welle
Defending Texas in Civil War
Nathan Jennings, RealClearHistory
Friday, May 13
The Netherlands Under Nazi Boots
Anthony Anderson, USC
Why the Dutch Despise Germans
Stephen Kinzer, New York Times
Lightning War Subdues Dutch
Chris Trueman, History Learning Site
Aerial Destruction of Rotterdam
Jeff Noordermeer, Scientific Psychic
The Deadly Founding of the Jewish State
Tom Wasson, ADST
How State of Israel Got Its Name
Aharon Reuveni, Haaretz
West Germany's Road to Rearm
Helga Haftendorn, NATO Review
Warsaw Pact's History of Interventions
Global Security
Sun King's Long Shadow on France
Louis XIV
The First American Football Game Ever Played
McGill University
Saturday, May 14
The Day George Wallace Got Shot
William Greider, Washington Post
Wallace: A Career of Tumult and Ultimately, Failure
The Telegraph
How Reagan Launched Career in Berkeley
Jeffrey Kahn, UC Berkeley
Reagan and FBI's Convenient Alliance
Seth Rosenfeld, SF Chronicle
Israel's First Fight for Survival
Yoav Gelber, Jewish Virtual Library
10 Worst School Massacres in History
Listverse
Westphalia's Lasting Influence
Pierre Beaudry, Schiller Institute
Skylab: U.S.'s First Space Station
Richard Kruse, Historic Spacecraft
Gordon Cooper's Leap of Faith
Ben Evans, America Space
McDonald's: Humble Start to World Domination
Daniel Gross, Forbes
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