<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In his reassessment of a tragic World War II battle, General Gavin concludes that, for the Germans, holding the Huertgen Forest was Phase One of the Battle of the Bulge. For the Americans, trying to occupy the forest was a ghastly mistake.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The most influential economist in the United States talks about prudence, productivity, and the pursuit of liquidity in the light of the past</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The victors divided the Germans into three groups: black (Nazi), white (innocent), and gray—that vast, vast area in between</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> America has won more Nobel Prizes in medicine than any other nation: it’s easy when you have the money, the technology, and people from every other nation</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Early in the century, a young American accurately predicted Japan’s imperialism and China’s and Russia’s rise. Then, he set out to become China’s soldier-leader.</span></p>
<p>An American soldier would never forget encountering the German with an icy smile. He would later discover that the blood of innocent millions dripped from Eichmann's manicured hands.</p>
<p><span class="deck">Americans have always sympathized with the Eastern European countries in their struggles for democracy, but, for two centuries, we haven’t been able to help much. Do we have a chance now? A distinguished expatriate looks at the odds.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The mysterious thing that happened to Lieutenant Colonel Brown over Bremen in 1943 sent the pilot off on a quest that lasted his entire life. Finally, he found the answer. It had been worth waiting for.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">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.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">For a century and a half, Germans have been deeply ambivalent about the United States, and their contradictory feelings say much about their future in Europe and the world.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He spent his tour of duty bombing German cities and made it home only to discover he could never leave the war behind him. Then, a lifetime later, he found a way to make peace.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In an exchange of letters, a man who had an immeasurable impact on how the great struggle of our times was waged looks back on how it began.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Donald Kagan, a historian of the ancient world believes that, in every era, people have reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that, to protect our national interests today, Americans must understand the choices that soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago.</span></p>
<p><span class="body">American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”</span></p>
<p>In a hard war, theirs may have been the hardest job of all. Along with Army doctors and nurses, they worked something very close to a miracle in the European theater.</p>
<p>American volunteers distributing food to starving Belgians witnessed the dramatic deportations, when an estimated 120,000 men were taken to factories in Germany.</p>
