Cover Story
Teddy Suhren’s Last Patrol
On the hunt with a rogue U-boat commander
By Ronald H. Bailey
The Speed-Up King
GM’s chief transformed America from carmaker to weapons giant
By Michael W. R. Davis
With a Sweet Kiss from Sally
Allied investigators hunt down the seductive Nazi broadcaster
By Richard Lucas
Portfolio
Double Duty
America’s trains became a vital link to the battlefield
Close Call Near Bastogne
Two American battalions stave off a massive German armored assault
By Leo G. Barron
Weapons Manual
The Makeshift MP3008
Germany abandoned craft to create a bare-bones submachine gun
By Max Gadney
DEPARTMENTS
Mail
World War II Today
Australian shipwreck; Auschwitz blueprints; Laurence Rees
War Letters
Hitler’s nephew
By Andrew Carroll
Conversation
Hannah Pakula on China’s wartime first lady
By Gene Santoro
Unknown Soldiers
Britain’s bomb whiz
By Stephen Budiansky
Time Travel
Wartime London
By Guy Aceto
Reviews
Japan’s Imperial Army; Germany 1945; WWII in HD
What If…
…The Allies Had Bombed Auschwitz?
By Mark Grimsley
Challenge
Mistake at Midway
Pinup