The photographs are wartime portraits of men and women presented to families
Desperate times forced Congress to detach the Continental Marines from the Navy to join the embattled army as Washington sought an “important stroke” to defeat his adversary
the story of an officer who was initially overlooked but was motivated by this frustration to make himself the army’s indispensable man
a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes
In early 1861
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 (Michael Neiberg, WH) pats The photographs are wartime portraitsby Michael Neiberg As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of diplomats, Allied generals, and governmental