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| | | | | What may get overlooked in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day is just how risky it was and how Allied military and intelligence elements had been conducting massive deception and disinformation campaigns for months ahead of time to ensure Operation Overlord had the best chance of succeeding. This included dumping radar confusing chaff, dummy paratroopers rigged with explosives, as well as Special Air Service (SAS) commandos with loudspeakers to broadcast disorient recordings, to confuse German forces. | |
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| | | | | Happy Veterans Day, formerly called Armistice Day since it marked the end of World War One on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. Here are six books on that often-neglected conflict. (I will omit Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August because of how well-known it already is.) THE HAT... | |
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| | | | | A D-Day commemoration recalls how left-behind Jeeps found a second life, from the peace table to the farm. | |
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| | | Book lovers and bibliophiles who are heading to New York City this year will have an embarrassment of choices when it comes to special exhibitions at some of the city's premier institutions. The Morgan Library & Museum'sCome Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytellingwill explore the history of storytelling running January 30 through May 3,... | ||