World War II
Harry Yeide |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Popular knowledge is that the Germans so feared and admired the American general, they watched his every move. The truth is very different.
Samantha Seiple |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:32 pm
When Japan captured a forbidding stretch of Alaskan soil, a group of tough-as-nails commandos led the charge to take it back
Jim Laurier |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Mitsubishi's A6M Type 0, the top carrier-based fighter in the opening days of the war
Richard Ernsberger Jr. |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Sixty-seven years after her death, Eva Braun, the long-time mistress of Adolf Hitler, remains a mysterious figure. Heike G. Görtemaker, a German historian and author, attempts to add clarity to the life of a woman who met Hitler as …
Laurence Rees |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:27 pm
How Stalin's policies meant the difference between life and death, and not in the way one might think
Saba Igbe |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Jamaica is best known for rum, reggae music, and its beach scene, but the easygoing Caribbean island had its share of wartime activity and intrigue. During the war there were at least a dozen major American military bases in …
Mark Grimsley |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Today the name Werner Heisenberg means little, even to highly educated people. But on the eve of World War II, he was a Nobel laureate with a reputation as possibly the world's greatest atomic physicist. So when the community …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
The top book titles from World War II magazine's resident blogger
Alex Kershaw |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Why Germany kept up the fight
Aleta Burchyski |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Patton
Men's Cologne
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There is Patton the man: an avid student of history and fluent in French, but peacockish and hungry for combat and glory. Then there is Patton the symbol: a tough-love general …
Patrick Clark |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:21 pm
A cockpit worth fighting for
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Tracing the roots of the kamikaze to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 17, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Last week we asked the Japanese army a somewhat sarcastic question: What were you guys thinking?
I'd argue that the Japanese decisions of 1931, 1937, and 1941 make almost no sense unless we delve back a bit into Japanese history. …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 04, 2012 at 1:53 pm
"What were you guys thinking?"
The Imperial Japanese Army was, by most standards, a first-rate outfit. Its officers were as smart and dedicated as they come and the enlisted ranks were filled with some of the toughest light infantry the …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 22, 2011 at 6:11 pm
As readers of this column know by now, war movies don't do much for me. It's a case of too much movie and not enough war. Too much Hollywood, not enough Hürtgen. Everything in real war is confused, bewildering, and …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: December 12, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I've already confessed my love of the Talvisota, the "Winter War," especially the opening phase in which the tiny Finnish army stood tall and smashed the initial Soviet invasion of their homeland. The Finns were a democratic people, fighting in …
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