World War II
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 05, 2011 at 10:02 am
Last week I spoke my piece about Edward R. Murrow and his I Can Hear it Now series. Ed's been dead a long time, but my hunch is that if he were alive, he wouldn't be doing a lot of …
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 11:01 am
In 1945, tens of millions of displaced persons, DPs, filled Germany and Western Europe. Many came from France, the Low Countries, and Italy, but most were Eastern Europeans. In The Long Road Home, historian Ben Shephard, who produced the documentary …
Robert Gandt |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 11:00 am
The last voyage of Japan’s greatest warship
Andrew Curry |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:59 am
The assassination of a top Nazi in Czechoslovakia sparked swift, brutal Nazi reprisals. Was it worth it?
Jim Laurier |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:58 am
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This infographic originally appeared in the Septebmer/October issue of World War II magazine.…
Richard B. Frank |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:57 am
A comprehensive new exploration of the route that supplied the far corner of the World War II.
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:57 am
The Unknown War
WWII and the Epic Battles
of the Russian Front
Hosted by Burt Lancaster, 1978.
16.5 hours. $39.97.
In 1978, the Soviet Union's leaders were miffed by the landmark series The World At War, which they felt …
Patrick Clark |
Published: August 04, 2011 at 10:55 am
In movies and, more recently, video-games, Nazis—and the the SS in particular—have increasingly filled the role of generic "Bad Guys," perpetrating the kind of over-the-top evil typically reserved for super villains. Where gritty depictions of counterfactual history are …
Published: July 29, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Utmost Savagery
The Three Days of Tarawa
Joseph H. Alexander (1995)
"My all-time favorite World War II book, the best minute-by-minute account of one of the bloodiest 72 hours in any war, anywhere. Getting into the minds of the men …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: July 28, 2011 at 9:41 am
I've been spending the past few columns discussing "the narrative" of World War II, our accepted version of the conflict, and how important it is to challenge it when we think it needs changing.
I've obviously touched a nerve. There …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: July 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Last week I urged you all to challenge the "accepted narrative" of World War II, to come up with things you used to believe about the war that no longer hold water.
I received some great answers! Some of you …
James Ullrich |
Published: July 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Visit Arromanches-les-Bains, the port born on D-Day.
Robert M. Citino |
Published: July 07, 2011 at 1:08 pm
A crazy question: what do we really KNOW about World War II?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the annual conference of the Society for Military History (SMH). The site this year was Lisle, Illinois, and the host …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 30, 2011 at 9:41 am
I'm sitting in LaGuardia Airport at the moment, returning home from a trip to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I'm proud to have a tie to the Academy: I taught there as a visiting professor during the 2008–09 …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 20, 2011 at 1:44 pm
It sounds like a joke, I know: a conference of history professors. Oh yeah…that's a party. You better hunker down, locals. Lock your doors. Call the police!
But I just returned from a conference of history professors, the annual gathering …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: June 07, 2011 at 5:47 pm
We live in an anniversary culture, one in which the media never stops telling us Why This Day Is Special. I am writing this column on June 7th—did you know this was the day Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder …
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