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No Tears for Colonel Peiper
Dear Sir,
I will shed no tears for Colonel Peiper. His ultimate fate should have come a lot sooner than it did. Read more
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Marek Edelman, a leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, kept alive through the years the memory of those who perished.
Marek Edelman was one of a very few Jewish patriots who fought the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto and lived to tell the story of the bravery of those who rose up against their oppressors during World War II. Read more
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The Eternal Call Of Duty
By Joseph LusterAfter only a few days on store shelves, Modern Warfare 2, the latest in Activision’s lucrative line of first-person shooters, was already pushing absurd numbers. Read more
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Supreme Force, Supreme Defeat
By Mason B. WebbBy the late 1930s, no army in the world was as powerful, well organized, or well-equipped as the German Army. Read more
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Tactical Air Evolution
By Allyn VannoyOn New Year’S Day 1945, Brig. Gen. Anthony G. McAuliffe, temporary commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, visited the XIX Tactical Air Command (TAC) “Raiders” group. Read more
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Walt Whitman: The One-Man Sanitary Commission
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the great American poet Walt Whitman was a man on the skids, personally and professionally. Read more
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Rewriting History the Wolfenstein Way
By Joseph LusterCreative minds have been coming up with ways to mess with the events of World War II for some time, well before Quentin Tarantino took us through a reality warp and rearranged Hitler’s face with Inglourious Basterds. Read more
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The Story of America’s Most Reviled President
By Al HemingwayWhen visitors gaze upon the immense marble statute of a seated Abraham Lincoln looking out upon the reflecting pool at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Read more
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Life After Death
By Mason B. WebbAuthor Richard Bessel’s latest book is, without doubt, a monumental work that goes in depth to chart Germany’s progress from a flattened, vilified foe to a bulwark in Europe’s efforts to resist Communist expansion and takeover. Read more
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Two weathered warbirds take flight in this aerial double header.
By Joseph LusterAfter maybe five minutes of playing Ubisoft’s Heroes Over Europe for the Xbox 360 and Playstations 3 (reviewed), I had the sudden urge to run to my computer, hop online, and see whether or not some offshoot of Factor 5 was behind the game’s development. Read more
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Keeping World War II Alive
Dear Editor,
This magazine is amazing! One of the best out there, and by far the most interesting.
I’ve had a fascination with World War II for years. Read more
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Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, helped the town of Vimoutiers, France, to rebuild.
Author Margaret Mitchell is remembered as one of the “first” citizens of Atlanta. Gone With the Wind, her novel of the Old South and the perseverance of heroine Scarlett O’Hara, stands as a literary classic which spawned one of the most famous motion pictures of all time. Read more
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The Lucky Lit. Wit Daniel Defoe
By Roy Morris Jr.When the Duke of Monmouth began his doomed, quixotic march across southern England in the summer of 1685, one of the few volunteers to join him from royal-dominated London was a 24-year-old hosiery merchant and trader named Daniel Defoe. Read more
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Hearts of Iron III
By Eric T. BakerWhen you sit down to start a game of Hearts of Iron III for the PC from Paradox Interactive, you can choose any year from 1936 to 1948 and play one of 150 different countries. Read more
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Rescuing Nazi Plunder
By Mason B. WebbBesides being a destroyer of lives and cities, war also destroys precious works of art and the ancient monuments of civilization. Read more
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Could poison darts have helped the Allies win?
During the darkest days of World War II, the British War Office considered any and every option to combat the burgeoning Nazi menace on the continent of Europe. Read more
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The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
By Peter SuciuDuring World War II, the American aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) was known as “the Ghost Ship” to the Japanese Imperial Navy because every time they thought they had sunk her, “the Fighting I” came back for more. Read more
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DICE’s Battlefield 1943
By Joseph LusterBattlefield 1943, for all its back-to-the-shores World War II familiarity, is the type of online-only game that remains relevant well past its July debut. Read more
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Paradox Interactive’s East India Company
By Eric T. BakerNot every war is a hot one. East India Company for the PC from Paradox Interactive is a strategic trading game with tactical combat elements set during the high age of European sail and exploration. Read more
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Israel’s Assault on the USS Liberty
By Al HemingwayOn June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a cargo ship built at the end of World War II and converted to an electronic surveillance vessel in 1964, was patrolling 14 miles off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Read more
