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Enemies No More

Alistair Horne | Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:02 pm
How a Doolittle Raider and a Pearl Harbor pilot became friends

Payback for Pearl

Alistair Horne | Published: February 10, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Doolittle’s Raiders avenged Pearl Harbor by hitting the Japanese where they least expected it—at home

Alistair, Meet Jimmy

Alistair Horne | Published: February 10, 2012 at 11:58 am
Author Sir Alistair Horne tells of his visit with legendary World War II pilot, Jimmy Doolittle

Going Rogue: The Imperial Japanese Army Launches a War

Robert M. Citino | Published: February 09, 2012 at 11:59 am
The Second Sino-Japanese War takes off, solidifying Emperor Hirohito's power and perhaps dooming Japan in World War II.

Patton: The German View

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.

Alaska's Cutthroats

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

Why Eva Braun Deserves No Sympathy: Conversation with Heike Görtemaker

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 …

A Soviet Strongman Reflects on the Art of Crushing Fear

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

Jamaica: U-boats, Rum, and Refugees

Saba Igbe | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Jamaica is best known for rum, reggae music, and its beach scene, but the easygoing Caribbean island had its share of wartime activity and intrigue. During the war there were at least a dozen major American military bases in …

What If Werner Heisenberg Had Been a Nazi?

Mark Grimsley | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Today the name Werner Heisenberg means little, even to highly educated people. But on the eve of World War II, he was a Nobel laureate with a reputation as possibly the world's greatest atomic physicist. So when the community …

Rob Citino's Reading List

Robert M. Citino | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
The top book titles from World War II magazine's resident blogger

Ian Kershaw's The End

Alex Kershaw | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Why Germany kept up the fight

Patton Cologne: The Smell of Victory

Aleta Burchyski | Published: January 30, 2012 at 2:22 pm
  Patton Men's Cologne 3.4 oz, $45. theamericaline.org. There is Patton the man: an avid student of history and fluent in French, but peacockish and hungry for combat and glory. Then there is Patton the symbol: a tough-love general …

Human Bullets: The Imperial Japanese Army

Robert M. Citino | Published: January 30, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Tracing the roots of the kamikaze to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905

Triumph of the Will? Japan After 1853

Robert M. Citino | Published: January 17, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Last week we asked the Japanese army a somewhat sarcastic question: What were you guys thinking? I'd argue that the Japanese decisions of 1931, 1937, and 1941 make almost no sense unless we delve back a bit into Japanese history. …

Book Review: The End, by Ian Kershaw

HistoryNet Staff | Published: January 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm
In his new history The End, Ian Kershaw looks at the reasons behind Germany's stubborn resistance in 1944-45 when it was clear it had already lost the war.
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