World War II
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 20, 2011 at 9:57 am
I was recently asked by the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) to speak at their annual Military Affairs Symposium in North Texas. The topic was "Training Marines and the Joint Force: The Value of Simulations and Games." It was …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: April 08, 2011 at 10:05 am
People committed a lot of crimes in World War II. Some were huge, earth-shattering, and we are still living with the consequences. Atrocity. Murder. Mass murder. Others were…smaller.
Consider, if you will, the "crime" of eavesdropping.
There may indeed have …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: March 31, 2011 at 10:07 am
What killed Operation Citadel? A lot of things.
Alex Kershaw |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:01 am
A new biography uncovers fresh revelations about the life of America's greatest-ever spy chief.
Richard B. Frank |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:01 am
Neptune's Inferno
The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
By James D. Hornfischer. 516 pp.
Random House, 2011. $30.
In the cauldron of the 1942 Guadalcanal Campaign, the role of the U.S. Navy's surface sailors is an epic saga of humiliating defeat, …
Patrick Clark |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 11:00 am
The aviation-themed massively multiplayer game Heroes in the Sky promises to steal your time, whether you have only 10 minutes to dabble or a whole day to immerse yourself in its world.
Based on the "free-to-play" model, Heroes boasts …
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:59 am
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter)
Directed by Martin Koolhoven.
2008; opens in the U.S. March 18, 2011.
103 minutes. Black and white, with subtitles.
January 1945: the heart of what the Dutch call Hongerwinter, when nearly 20,000 starved to death after …
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
Favorite World War II books from the creator of our popular "Weapon's Manual" feature.
Mark Grimsley |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:54 am
No number of errors in mobilization could have throttled the increase in U.S. production, but serious blunders were still possible.
Peter Bennett |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:53 am
The former führer dreamed of contributing to the arts of Vienna. Instead, reminders of suffering remain for tourists today.
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:53 am
Mikhail Tukhachevsky's new "deep battle" tank doctrine allowed the Soviets to smash German armor at Kursk and thereafter
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:52 am
"I've been thinking about this for 20 years," says Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of Eastern Europe. "This" is the unspeakable carnage he chronicles in Bloodlands, the first comprehensive overview of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and …
Andrew Carroll |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:52 am
By September 1944, 23-year-old lieutenant Erwin Blonder had seen enough of war to want to chronicle what he had witnessed—while keeping the news from his wife, Shirlee, and his mother and mother-in-law. In the letter that follows, he describes his …
Sharon Tosi Lacey |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:51 am
When a Marine general fired an Army general on Saipan, all hell broke loose
Stephen Budiansky |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 10:51 am
How the U.S. Army wrung victory from one of their worst defeats
Robert M. Citino |
Published: March 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Why Hitler called off Operation Citadel to save Italy
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