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1991

Stories Published in this Year

The Biggest Theater | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

Revisiting the seas where American carriers turned the course of history, a Navy man re-creates a time of frightful odds and brilliant gambles.

Casablanca | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

Desperate improvisations in the face of imminent disaster saw us through the early years of the fight. They also gave us the war’s greatest movie.

Secret Treason | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

He wanted only what every journalist of the time did: an exclusive interview with the Duke of Windsor. What he got was an astonishing proposition that sent him on an urgent, top-secret visit to the White House and a once-in-a-lifetime story that was too hot to print, until now.

In 1941, the president understood better than many Americans the man who was running Germany, and Hitler understood Roosevelt and his country better than we knew.

What to Call It? | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

It took us longer to name the war than to fight it.

Time Machine | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

Hollywood Jumps the Gun

Time Machine | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

Beginning of the End

My Guns | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

A memoir of the Second World War:  Seeking the answer to a simple and terrible question: What was it like?

1941 Fifty Years Ago | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

Tuffy’s Day

Time Machine | December 1991 (Volume: 42, Issue: 8)

To Set the World on Fire

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