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Book Review: The First Soldier / Hitler as Military Leader
Author and scholar Stephen G. Fritz reexamines the myth behind the portrayal of Hitler as a bumbling military officer.
Book Review: Hitler’s Monsters
Hitler’s Monsters is a fascinating book, describing in fine detail the Nazi Party’s devotion to the occult and supernatural as means to win the war.
WWII Book Review: Hitler’s Panzers
Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare By Dennis Showalter. 400 pp. Berkley, […]
D-Day Through a German Lens
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Germans botched their chance to defeat the Allies, and, in the end, the invaders moved in on them permanently
The Birth of German Militarism
The legendary, victorious campaigns of the Great Elector, Frederick William I. Wordsworth famously wrote: […]
The Cost of Victory
It’s a truism as old as warfare itself—spectacular victories often at a terrible cost. […]
Last Ride at Anzio
Fierce German counterattacks came within one mile of destroying an Allied invasion in early 1944
Who Was the War’s Most Overrated Leader?
World War II made giant reputations—from Winston Churchill’s to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, from Joseph […]
Tanks that Mattered
For the past century, in single combat and in wars, these landmark tanks have been arbiters of victory and defeat.