World War II
Dennis Showalter |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:52 am
Dennis Showalter reviews the best new book on Kursk
Richard Frank |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:51 am
Rich Frank reviews a new bio on the man behind Midway
Mark Grimsley |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:51 am
On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister. "I would say to the House," he declaimed, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." He predicted …
Laurence Rees |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:50 am
There are many people who think that there was some kind of uniquely German gene that made millions succumb to Hitler. But if, as I did, these people had the chance to meet Karl Boehm-Tettlebach, who worked for Hitler …
John D. Lukacs |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:49 am
Soon after my arrival on steamy Singapore, I swore I heard bagpipes—faint, haunting skirls that, in my mind, were fading echoes from the past. The scenery, the tropical weather, the history of the island—all invoked in me a strange …
Andrew Carroll |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:49 am
On March 19, 1944, Allied warplanes blew up a German U-boat off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands, killing 47 of its 55 crewmen. Among the survivors was the submarine's Austrian commander, Gunter Leopold, who was picked up by …
Alex Kershaw |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:48 am
Three legendary war correspondents—Robert Capa, Ernie Pyle, and Ernest Hemingway—scramble to cover the Allied advance across France.
Bill Sloan |
Published: April 23, 2012 at 10:47 am
Once a haven, the island fortress of Corregidor became its own brand of hell following the fall of Bataan
Andrew Curry |
Published: April 22, 2012 at 3:15 pm
As Poland's underground army struggled to pry the Germans from their capital, Stalin sat back and let the Rising fail.
Andrew Nagorski |
Published: March 01, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Military attaché Truman Smith was the first American diplomat to meet a local agitator in Munich named Adolf Hitler, and among the first to warn of Germany’s military resurgence. His reports were timely,
prescient—and largely ignored.
Gene Santoro |
Published: February 24, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Walt Ehlers will turn 91 this May, but his memories of landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day and fighting until V-E Day haven't dimmed. Staff Sergeant Ehlers of the 1st Infantry Division killed dozens of Germans and was wounded …
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
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