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Gene Santoro |
Published: September 24, 2012 at 2:45 pm
"I know there are a lotta great stories out there about World War II," declares actor Joe Mantegna, "but I've got a pretty good one." The versatile Chicago-born star's resumé includes David Mamet films, The Simpsons, and Criminal Minds, his …
John D. Lukacs |
Published: September 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
The fading beams of my flashlight sweep the cavernous reinforced concrete laterals of Malinta Tunnel, barely illuminating my passage. Vintage wires and fixtures, timber trusses, and piles of rubble flare into focus in fleeting camera flashes, then vanish, frustratingly, in …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: September 04, 2012 at 10:59 am
Gambling on victory in the 1930s
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 24, 2012 at 5:01 pm
One of the toughest questions a historian of World War II has to answer is, "How did the Germans stay in the field so long?" Their plan to conquer the Soviet Union in a single quick campaign in 1941 came …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 13, 2012 at 10:54 am
The lifeline of the Wehrmacht’s multiple-front war was the European rail network, the same system that supported the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.
James Campbell |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:10 pm
To hold Saipan's bloody peak, the Bastard Battalion had to dig in
James Campbell |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:09 pm
As the U.S. Marine Corps fought Japanese troops for Saipan, one group of Marines there was battling on a different level.
Mark Grimsley |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Would Germany have set a peaceful course?
Laurence Rees |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:05 pm
A Lithuanian Holocaust perpetrator explains why he murdered Jewish men, women, and children
David Stafford |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies
By Ben Macintyre. 416 pp.
Crown, 2012. $26.
While the Allies were securing their tenuous beachhead at Normandy, the Germans kept the bulk of their forces north of the Seine River, …
Gene Santoro |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
The Rape of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang. 314 pp.
Basic, new edition 2012. $15.99.
This passionate book, recently reissued, is bristling with facts, figures, and the memories of witnesses. They put flesh on …
Patrick Clark |
Published: August 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Sniper Elite V2 puts players in the shoes of Karl Fairburne, a lone American OSS sniper operative deep behind enemy lines in Berlin in April 1945. Vicious fighting engulfs the city as the Soviets topple German resistance on all fronts …
Karen Jensen |
Published: August 08, 2012 at 10:08 am
The soldier bear who went to war for Poland
Published: August 03, 2012 at 11:54 am
October Issue Extra: The Patillo brothers of Georgia. Who died in battle? Who came away uninjured?
Robert M. Citino |
Published: August 02, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Another look at the Italians at the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Charles R. Carr, oral history |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:09 pm
On his first helicopter assault, he jumped and ran the wrong way; his company was 30 ft. away, facing the other direction
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