Vatican Intrigue: Priest Outwits Nazis
How an Irish monsignor used his Vatican office to defy fascist authorities in wartime Rome
Book Review: How Hitler Was Made
Cory Taylor traces Adolf Hitler's rise to prominence in prewar Germany through 1924
The Stranger-Than-Fiction Career of the OSS’s Carl Eifler
The colonel headed a clandestine operations program that required brute force, innovation, and a strange-looking submarine.
Armchair Historian – the Attempt to Kill Hitler | HistoryNet
Griffin Johnsen, the Armchair Historian, details Claus von Stauffenberg's failed 1944 attempt to bomb Adolf Hitler, take over Nazi Germany, and surrender to the Allies.
‘Desert Fox’ Offers Thrilling Battle Scenes—and No New Takes
The Rommel biography focuses more on the general's North Africa adventures than on fresh scholarship.
This American Military Attaché Bet on the British When Few Would
General Raymond E. Lee voiced unwavering support—while holding private doubts.
I Stormed Ashore With Robert Capa on D-Day
A G.I. recalls his harrowing D-Day beach landing, where he waded into Robert Capa's famous photo array
DC Comics Author Pays Homage to His Uncle, a D-Day Hero
Bestselling author Robert Vinditti latest comic creation tells the story of American paratroopers badly misdropped on D-Day who fought in the June 10-12, 1944
Madame Fourcade Was One of World War II’s Most Daring Female Spies
The courageous socialite played a key role in the French Resistance—yet received little credit for her efforts.
War Story: A GI recalls his D-Day Experience at Omaha Beach
In an essay written soon after the war—published here for the first time—a GI recalls his time at Omaha Beach and the events afterward
‘This Is What Hell Is Like’: 74 Years Ago, My Grandfather-in-Law Liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp
It was April 29, 1945, a cold, damp day when a 19-year-old private and his fellow soldiers got orders to liberate a Nazi concentration camp called Dachau.
Daniel Guiet: A Father’s Secret War
Daniel Guiet relates the clandestine wartime service of his father, OSS and SOE operator Jean-Claude Guiet
Book Review: Hermann Ehrhardt
John Koster profiles German monarchist Hermann Ehrhardt as a foil to disastrous Führer Adolf Hitler
Alex Vraciu: The Indestructible WWII Ace
He shot down 19 Japanese planes. But he lost three Hellcats - they called him 'Grumman's best customer'
Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid...
