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Cover Story
Long Shadow
A ferocious but little-known Japanese-Soviet battle in Outer Mongolia shaped the world war to come
Stuart D. Goldman
26
The Art of the Double Cross
Pairing up Enigma decrypts with a network of spies, Britain pitted Germany against itself
Stephen Budiansky
38
Portfolio
Clever Counterfeits
The Allies and Axis alike tried to dupe each other with fake weapons and landscapes
46
The Third Reich, at Length
A definitive 12,000-age history takes an unblinking look at Nazi Germany
Dennis Showalter
52
Soldiers of Fortune
In 1945, three American officers smuggled jewels from a German castle. Were they spoils of war, or evidence of a crime?
Stephen Harding
56
Weapons Manual
The Browning Battlefield
As infantry tactics evolved, so did the standard American machine gun
Max Gadney
64
DEPARTMENTS
Mail
7
World War II Today
Polish leader's death investigated; Patton at rest; Mengele's Brazilian twins
8
War Letters
An American pilot witnesses the unimaginable just after the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp
Andrew Carroll
15
Conversation
Andrew Roberts on how Roosevelt, Churchill, George C. Marshall, and Alan Brooke won the war
Gene Santoro
18
Unknown Soldiers
The man who invented the K ration
Stephen Budiansky
21
Time Travel
In Chicago, a beautifully preserved German U-boat tells its wartime story
Caitlin Newman
22
Reviews
Battle of Britain redux; Defiance; Capra at war
67
What If…
…Churchill hadn't tamed his "black dog"?
Mark Grimsley
75
Challenge
A polka-dotted bomber
79
Pinup
80
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