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On Aug. 23 the Luftwaffe sent 600 bombers against the city, killing 40,000 civilians. On the same day, the Germans established a five-mile front to the north. Wrote the Soviet General Vassili Chuikov: "The enormous city, stretching for 30 miles along the Volga, was enveloped in flames. Everything...
On Feb. 27, six months and 25 days after Iraqi tanks crushed Kuwait beneath their treads, another column of armored vehicles rumbled into the capital city. This time the advancing forces were greeted with an outburst of exultation that rivaled the liberation of Paris during World War II. As columns...
In the months since Iraqi tanks rumbled into Kuwait, stores and restaurants owned by Arab Americans in Los Angeles and Detroit have been set afire. Many Arab-American leaders are receiving regular death threats. At the home of a Lebanese family in Dearborn, vandals burned an Iraqi flag on the...
Many soldiers joined the students or handed over their weapons. Two Soviet mechanized divisions stationed outside Budapest rumbled into the city and were met by sniper fire and Molotov cocktails. The unimaginable was happening: for the first time in history, a Soviet satellite state was succeeding in open, armed revolt...
On the day East and West officially proclaimed the end of the cold war at the Paris summit last week, the once unthinkable happened: a Soviet armored vehicle roared across what used to be the Iron Curtain smack into downtown Berlin. Following an argument with his girlfriend, a 20-year...