When Ernest Hemingway Went from Writer to Fighter
Colonel Charles T. Lanham and Ernest Hemingway each had something the other wanted. Their interests merged in 1944 on Europe's battlefields.
Book Review: 1941
Andrew Nagorski focuses on the fateful year Adolf Hitler all but ensured the destruction of the Third Reich
‘That memory will just never, ever go away’: Hershel Williams Recalls Iwo Jima 75 Years On
HistoryNet interviews Iwo Jima veteran Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific War.
The Women Who Loved Hitler
Nazi doctrine pigeonholed them as obedient mothers and wives, but a cadre of strong female supporters aided the rise of the Führer and some of his most trusted men.
Book Review: Hitler’s Great Gamble
James Ellman imagines the counterfactual outcome of of Operation Barbarossa had Adolf Hitler been a better diplomat
Book Review: On a Knife’s Edge
Prit Buttar properly sets the WWII Battle of Stalingrad amid the broader context of winter campaigns in the Ukraine
Samuel Fuller and The Big Red One
Samuel Fuller reinvented the American war movie with such gritty classics as The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, and The Big Red One.
James Fenelon: Four Hours of Fury
Former paratrooper James Fenelon relates Operation Varsity, the March 1945 jump by U.S. troops on the German side of the Rhine
Book Review: Fire and Fortitude
John McManus restores historical balance by properly citing the Army’s role in first two years of the Pacific War
Ian Toll’s Third Volume, ‘Twilight of the Gods,’ Out Next Summer
The thrilling conclusion of Toll's Pacific War trilogy recounts the final and bloody last year of World War II in the region
Book Review: Rampage
James Scott relates the 1945 Battle of Manila and the devastating toll the Japanese exacted on everyday Filipinos
Spitfire vs. Hurricane: First RAF Combat of World War II
Eighty years ago, the air war over Britain did not start well for the Royal Air Force in a “friendly fire” incident involving Spitfires and Hurricanes
Book Review: Big Week
James Holland recounts Operation Argument, the February 1944 bombing campaign over Germany that also knocked the Luftwaffe out of World War II
