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Behind the Lines: Iraq’s Queen Mother
Unlikely nation-maker Gertrude Bell redrew the map of the Middle East
View ArticleBehind the Lines: From Separate and Unequal to Shipmates
The U.S. Navy’s surprise steps toward desegregation in World War II
View ArticleMHQ Behind the Lines: Building Faux Paris
In World War I, the French Ministry of War built a massive decoy city to fool German airmen
View ArticleKorean ‘Comfort Women’: Japan’s World War II Sex Slaves
Japan forced tens of thousands of Korean women to be sex slaves in World War II
View ArticleBehind the Lines: Olmsted at War
During the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted left landscape design behind to help create the U.S. Sanitary Commission
View ArticleDignity in Defeat: Mathew Brady’s Photos of Robert E. Lee
Why Robert E. Lee sat for photographer Mathew Brady so soon after Appomattox
View ArticleBehind the Lines | Antwerp, 1914
Britain goes to war—but where? WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE ENGLISH CHANNEL and whoever controlled the Channel threatened the maritime perimeter of the British Isles. That was the center of gravity in the...
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