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The Man Who Made The Yanquis Go Home
, , , Issue 5Starting with thirty “liberated” rifles, Augusto Sandino forced American troops out of Nicaragua in 1933 More >>>
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The Battle Off Samar
, , , Issue 1American forces had returned to the Philippines, and the Japanese Navy was about to make its last, desperate attempt to stave off defeat. Suddenly, by miscalculation, nothing stood between its most powerful task force and the American beachhead at Leyte Gulf but a small group of U.S. escort carriers. Could little Taffy 3 hold off Admiral Kurita’s gigantic battleships? More >>>
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Aide To Four Presidents
, , , Issue 2One day in 1926 when the world was quiet and no wars were in progress anywhere, Wilson Brown, a spare, erect and self-effacing captain in the Navy, reported to Washington, confidently expecting to pic More >>>
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Daylight In The Swamp
, , , Issue 6Old-time logging in the Pacific Northwest was “a wildly wonderful if tragically heedless era”; there are those who still mourn its passing More >>>
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The Time Of The Great Fever
, , , Issue 4U-Boom on the Colorado Plateau More >>>
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Country
, , , Issue 7It’s the fastest-growing music in America. It’s a three-billion-dollar-plus industry. Cable stations devoted to it reach sixty-two million homes. And yet, says one passionate follower of country music past and present, its story is over. More >>>
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Doug Fairbanks
, , , Issue 1Superstar of the Silents More >>>