Book Review: Operation Dragoon
Robin Cross relates the operational complexities of Operation Dragoon in southern France
Book Review: Normandy ’44
James Holland outlines the complexities of the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, history's largest amphibious operation
Warplanes of a Different Stripe
A tragic 1943 friendly fire incident in Sicily prompted development of aircraft identification markings that saved countless lives on D-Day
Hitler’s ‘Cavalry of the Future’
Adolf Hitler had an ulterior motive for ramping up the Third Reich’s investment in the German automotive industry and its racing teams.
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 76 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.
