World War II
Gene Santoro |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:17 pm
'Writing this book," Matthew Brzezinski declares, "made me grasp the horrors of the situation's choices." The "situation" is the Nazi-ruled Warsaw Ghetto, portrayed with gritty detail in Isaac's Army. From 1940 on, a 24-year-old Zionist youth leader named Isaac …
Andrew Carroll |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Branded a left-wing peacenik during his 1972 presidential campaign against incumbent Richard M. Nixon, Senator George S. McGovern lost that race in a landslide, winning only Massa-chusetts and Washington, D.C. A major reason for his defeat was his opposition to …
Laurence Rees |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Of all the places I've been, the port of Archangel in the north of Russia is the least romantic. The climate is terrible—cold and dank most of the year—and ships lie rusting in the harbor. From the drunks on the …
Mark Grimsley |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:15 pm
Some Reversals of fortune in World War II would have had huge consequences and yet make for uninteresting counterfactuals. The shifts in outcome are simply too obvious.
In the case of Operation Overlord, the June 1944 D-Day landings, an Allied …
Tom Huntington |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 2:08 pm
The Liberator
One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
By Alex Kershaw. 448 pp.
Crown, 2012. $28.
War is hell, but Felix Sparks, the central figure in The Liberator…
Don Hollway |
Published: March 04, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Seventy years ago, American pilots accomplished a mission: impossible—and set a military precedent.
Published: March 04, 2013 at 11:22 am
Considering the Siren's call of an alleged buried cache of Supermarine Spitfires.
Jon Guttman |
Published: February 28, 2013 at 12:14 pm
The French 75 made its mark in 1914 at First Marne, then echoed around the world in various versions.
Published: February 28, 2013 at 11:39 am
Pulitzer Prize–winning author-historian Rick Atkinson has completed the final volume of his Liberation Trilogy, a history of the U.S. Army in Europe in World War II.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Geoffrey Roberts has written a well-researched, candid biography of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, an impressive if only intermittently sympathetic commander.
Noah Andre Trudeau |
Published: February 20, 2013 at 4:51 pm
In "Airborne Symphony," Marc Blitzstein composed a vivid picture of air power in World War II
Dennis Showalter |
Published: February 20, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Soviet infantry and T-34/76 tanks charge the German line at Kursk. (akg-images/RIA Nowosti)
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"It's time to write the Last Will and Testament" one …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: February 19, 2013 at 12:43 pm
The theme of this column lately has been the way that Americans are keeping alive the memory of World War II. The results are in, and the verdict is "wow!" The recent exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts of …
Drew Lindsay |
Published: January 25, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Hundreds of thousands of women have served in combat through the ages
Robert M. Citino |
Published: January 22, 2013 at 5:07 pm
I've said it many times: I'm a lucky guy. Beautiful wife. Wonderful family. I get to live in Texas. (No offense to the other states. I've lived in a few and they're not bad at all.)
Another way I'm lucky …
Joseph L. Galloway |
Published: January 08, 2013 at 4:29 pm
In tribute to Command Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, who died in October 2012, journalist Joe Galloway reflects on the three-war career of Plumley, with whom he forged a deep bond during the desperate 1965 fighting at Ia Drang
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