Taught to fly by the Wright Brothers, appointed the first and only five-star general of the Air Force, and remembered as the man who won World War II’s air war, Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold is one of the most significant figures in American aviation history. Despite his legacy as an air pioneer, little has been written about him. In the thoroughly detailed Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower, reprinted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United States Air Force, bi...

On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of sixteen B-25 bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on one of the most daring raids in U.S. military history, a low-level strike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. For this heroic act, he received the Medal of Honor. But, as Dik Alan Daso convincingly argues, James H. Doolittle should be remembered as much more than a famous combat pilot. With a doctorate in aeronautics from MIT, he devoted his life to mastering the technical...

Die Vertonung des sozialdemokratischen VORWÄRTS (Berliner Morgenausgabe) erinnert an den Moment das Scheiterns der Demokratie in Deutschland in der Nacht zum 28. Februar 1933. Der Reichstagsbrand war der NSDAP-dominierten Regierung willkommener Anlass zum Verbot aller missliebigen Presse. So auch des letzten offiziell erschienenen VORWÄRTS der Weimarer Republik. Welche Stimmung mochte vor dem Verbot in der Redaktion des VORWÄRTS geherrscht haben? Was war zu hören in den Büros, den Fluren u...