Warsaw Uprising
Heroic Warsaw Airlift
By Patrick J. ChaissonWarsaw was burning. Captain Jack Van Eyssen first saw it as a dull glow on the night horizon, 35 miles distant. Read more
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WWII Diary of a Boy Soldier: A Story of Youth and Resistance
Julian Kulski was only ten years old when he was introduced to war. As he hunted for mushrooms near Warsaw, Poland, he was struck by the unmistakable buzz of the German blitzkrieg:
“… we heard the sound of engines. Read more
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Operation Bagration: Soviet Triumph in the East
By Henrik LundeOperation Bagration, the largest operation of World War II, has never been adequately acknowledged in the West to the same extent as a number of smaller campaigns. Read more
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Warsaw Uprising: The Story of Bogdan Mieczkowski
By Yanek Mieczkowski“This mission is suicidal,” thought Bogdan Mieczkowski. In the autumn of 1944, the 19-year-old Polish resistance fighter battled in the Warsaw Uprising. Read more
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Military Book Reviews: George S. Patton and Erwin Rommel
by Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.American General George S. Patton, Jr., and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel both demonstrated the masterful employment of armored forces in many World War II military campaigns. Read more
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WWII Weapons: The Hetzer Tank Destroyer
By Robert CashnerBy 1943 it was obvious to the Germans that their tank production could not keep pace with battlefield losses. Read more
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Stanislaw Sosabowski: Poland’s Premier Paratrooper
By Tom Aiello, Ph.DStanislaw Sosabowski started his military career in the anti-Hapsburg Polish underground movement in 1907, served in the Austrian Army in World War I, and rose to the command of the Polish Parachute Brigade in World War II. Read more
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“Is Paris Burning?” Liberating the City of Light
By Kelly BellBy the late summer of 1944, the Third Reich was almost surrounded. Two years earlier Adolf Hitler had ground 10 European countries under his heel along with vast expanses of North Africa and Soviet Russia. Read more
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April 2013 World War II Games
By Joseph LusterDeveloped by DMD Enterprise, an independent developer established in Warsaw, Poland, Uprising 44: The Silent Shadows is the kind of work that exemplifies “rough around the edges.” Read more
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Anders’ Army: Wladyslaw Anders & the Polish II Corps
By John E. SpindlerOn April 21 1945, the Polish 2nd Corps captured the Italian city of Bologna and from the city’s highest tower flew the flag of Poland. Read more
