World War II
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:36 pm
John Prados takes a fresh look at the 1944 Normandy campaign, considering the impact of Ultra intercepts and the way the German Wehrmacht performed.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Red Orchestra 2 is the most realistic first-person shooter to hit the market in the past decade.
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:24 pm
The Type 95 boasted three times the range of its U.S. Navy counterpart, was faster than the electrically driven Mark 18, and it left no wake.
Stanley Weintraub |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 5:14 pm
In August 1945 MacArthur arrived in postwar Japan, tasked with the job of rebuilding that defeated nation
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Brawny sailors load a gun in a navy recruiting poster from World War I. (Library of Congress)
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MHQ's Winter 2012 issue features a story about how the U.S. navy has reinvented itself—and the American sailor—over the …
Robert M. Citino |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Andrew Roberts and Max Hastings both try to put all of World War II in one book.
Edward Savela |
Published: November 08, 2011 at 3:11 pm
The Japanese diplomat Takeo Yoshikawa set the stage for his country's surprise attack.
Published: November 04, 2011 at 3:29 pm
In his new book The Storm of War, Cambridge-educated historian Andrew Roberts takes another look at German competence and Russian sacrifice in World War II.
Published: October 07, 2011 at 9:59 am
I received some good discussion on my last post. Some took me to task, others were supportive, and still others were non-committal. At issue was the notion of how much of history is an eye-of-the-beholder narrative and how much is—to …
Published: October 05, 2011 at 10:38 am
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Pearl Harbor at 70
The Pearl Harbor Myth
A new analysis shows the "brilliant"
Japanese attack was riddled with blunders
By Alan D. Zimm
The Prime Minister
and the Professor
Churchill trusted his scientific advisor—
even …
Gene Santoro |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:35 am
In May 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto became a movie set. The SS filmed a combination of real scenes (crammed streets with tattered figures, corpses stretched along the edges) and staged scenes (wealthy Jews dining in sumptuous restaurants, shopping at well-stocked …
Dennis Showalter |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:34 am
Demolishing the Myth
The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative
By Valeriy Zamulin. 672 pp.
Helion & Company, 2011. $69.95.
For anyone interested in the war between Russia and Germany, the battle of Prokhorovka …
Alex Kershaw |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
Black Sheep
The Life of Pappy Boyington
By John F. Wukovits 228 pp.
Naval Institute Press, 2011. $34.95.
Mavericks win wars. And the legendary alcoholic Marine Corps ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was surely one of the most colorful mavericks of …
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:33 am
His last letter home before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Andrew Curry |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 8:32 am
Enter the Wolf Pack's Baltic lair.
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