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Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...

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James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...

And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...

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Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...

It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...