My Brush With History (June/July 2005, Volume 56, Issue 3) n:61514

My Brush With History

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June/July 2005

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Volume

56

Issue

3

Dining Out Guide to Wartime London Victory in Sight My V-J Day

Stories published from "June/July 2005"

The Buyable Past

Authored by: David Lander

Shaker boxes

Cars, Cards, And Father

Authored by: The Editors

A trio of American Heritage authors have expanded their articles into books

Brady’s War, Revisited

Authored by: The Editors

A marine returns to the place where he and his brothers fought and died

“You Will Be Afraid”

Authored by: John J. Pullen

Next to Winston Churchill, Gen. George Patton gave the war’s most famous speeches. But nobody knew quite what he said—until now.

“How Would You Like To Be Attached To The Red Army?”

Authored by: Robert Hopkins

A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt— and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin

“Just One More River To Cross”

Authored by: John M. Ryan

The final hours of the war were every bit as perilous as all the other ones for this American POW

“A Straight Path Through Hell ”

Authored by: Joe O’Donnell

Stationed near Nagasaki at the close of the war, a young photographer ventured into the devastated city and stayed for months.

“We Knew That If We Succeeded, We Could At One Blow Destroy A City”

Authored by: Michael Lennick

A final interview with the most controversial father of the atomic age, Edward Teller

“The So-called Charge Was Murder”

Authored by: Gene Smith

A young GI making the journey from war to peace, and from enmity to friendship, finds amid the most tremendous change smoldering embers of an old tyranny

Dining Out Guide To Wartime London

Authored by: The Editors

Eat Where The Locals Go

My Brush With History

My Brush With History

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