Volume 2, No. 4
COVER: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, photographed in his Jeep on December 12, 1944. Popperfoto/Getty Images
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
In the fall of 1941, the Polish writer Aleksander Wat, recently released from confinement in a Soviet prison, made his way east across the vast expanses of the Soviet Union. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly, Operations
In German it was called Operation Rösselsprung, which translates to “Long Jump.” Its goal was to kill or kidnap the Allies’ “Big Three” leaders––Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston S. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly, Museums
Although Britain has a number of war museums, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) is acknowledged as the Holy Grail of them all—the one you must visit when in London. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
Lieutenant General George Patton’s Third Army had come a long way since it was activated on August 1 in Normandy. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
A United States naval task force bearing the U.S. 1st Marine Division arrived off Guadalcanal, in the eastern Solomon Islands, on the morning of August 7, 1942, and launched the first American offensive operation of World War II. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
Dwight David Eisenhower began life as David Dwight Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas, on October 14, 1890, the third of five sons. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
It was Napoleon Bonaparte who purportedly said, “An army travels on its stomach.” Toward the goal of feeding his particular army’s stomach more efficiently, in 1795 the French general came up with an interesting solution to the problem. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
For more than a century the Middle East was the British Empire’s vital link between the Mediterranean and India. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
It was with great anticipation that I sprang up the snowy steps of a Milwaukee building in January 1942 and entered the Marine Corps Recruitment Center. Read more
Summer 2011
WWII Quarterly
The area between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains had been relatively quiet since the end of Operation Bagration late in the summer of 1944. Read more
