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Book Reviews: Churchill Biography and Hitler Analysis
Churchill, flaws and all; the political origins of Hitler; and the strange friendship of Mussolini and the German dictator
Battle Films
Battle Films: Rommel (2012)
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart
Battle Films
Battle Films: The Desert Fox
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Book Reviews
Book Review: A Dangerous Woman by Susan Ronald
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
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The Man Who Started World War II
Alfred Naujocks was an SS expert in dirty deeds done well, charged with making Poland appear a villain
Mag: World War II Featured
Book Review: Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.
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Dunkirk and the Dunes
As France and Spain vied for the key port of Dunkirk in early 1658, England unexpectedly held the balance
Book Reviews
Review: The Myth Of Hitler’s Military Incompetence Examined in “The First Soldier”
Author and scholar Stephen G. Fritz reexamines the myth behind the portrayal of Hitler as a bumbling military officer
Mag: Military History Featured
Book Review: The Skull of Alum Bheg
Kim Wagner set out to discover the man described as “a principal leader in the mutiny of 1857"
