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Manila wasn’t short on symbols. The sixth-largest city in the United States—substantially larger than Boston or Washington, D.C.—had for a month of fighting been converted into an abattoir. South Manila, where Quirino lived, had been leveled. Bodies decomposed everywhere, many bearing the marks of torture or execution. The stench was unbearable. “T

THE BLACK PRINCE AND THE SEA DEVILS The Story of Prince Valerio Borghese and the Elite Commandos of the Decima MAS JACK GREENE ALESSANDRO MASSIGNANI

“Putting it crudely, we really went to town,” Beightler reported. “To me, the loss of a single American life to save a building was unthinkable.” That’s a sentence worth reading twice. In Beightler’s mind, he was facing a trade-off—and not a particularly difficult one—between lives and architecture. But, as he well knew, those buildings were inhabi

Mindful of what it would take to turn the sleepy settlement into a city, she approached Flagler’s rival Henry Plant about the possibility of extending his railroad from Tampa southeastward across the Everglades to Fort Dallas. Plant dispatched his chief of railroad operations, James E. Ingraham, to investigate the 250-mile route. In what became a v