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Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess: Foe or Ally?
By Sherman GenglerThroughout the reign of the Nazi Party in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, Adolf Hitler’s inner circle comprised a diverse group of men from many walks of life. Read more
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The British Prosper Spy Network: Destroyed to Protect D-Day?
By Peter KrossOn June 6, 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, planes, and ships departed from their bases in England bound for the shores of France in what was to be the greatest invasion of all time. Read more
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Commando Paddy Mayne: Ireland’s Wolf of the Desert
By Kelly BellThe night of December 14, 1941, was bitterly cold in the North African desert. Midway between El Agheila and Tripoli, Libya, was the German and Italian air base outside the town of Tamet. Read more
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The WWII Sniper: Caught in the Crosshairs of Famous Sharpshooters
By Jon LatimerThe art of sniping developed from the sharpshooting practiced during earlier conflicts. During the 19th century, the steadily improving technology of the rifle led to the use of sharpshooters during the American Civil War and the Boer War. Read more
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Fliegen und Siegen: Photographs from the Luftwaffe
By A. BurkeSixty-five years ago, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe showcased its aerial triumphs in a 1942 commemorative book of photographs entitled Fliegen und Siegen (“Flying and Victory”). Read more
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Revolts in the Death Camps
By Jonathan F. KeilerBy the spring of 1943, the Nazi deaths camps in eastern Poland—Sobibor, Belzac, and Treblinka—were running out of victims. Read more
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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bizarre Surcouf
By William H. LangenbergThe legendary Flying Dutchman of maritime lore was a spectral ship of disastrous portent that haunted the high seas and endangered anyone who came into contact with it. Read more
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B-29 Superfortress: The Plane That Bombed Japan Into Submission
By Sam McGowanAs the Japanese delegation stood on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, preparing to sign the documents that ended World War II, a large formation of Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers swooped low over Tokyo Bay as a reminder of the terrible destruction that had befallen their nation and turned Japan’s cities into ruins. Read more
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South Africans in the Breech: Expelling Mussolini From Ethiopia
By Jon LatimerBoarding a train at the famous station built by the French as a terminus on the line from Djibouti, the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God, Ras Tafari, Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia left his capital Addis Ababa on May 2, 1936. Read more
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Holding the Line on the High Seas
By Paul B. CoraAlso Through the first half of World War II, Allied shipping losses to German U-boats climbed steadily from over 400,000 tons in the last four months of 1939 to more than two million tons each in 1940 and 1941, before reaching a staggering 6,266,215 tons in 1942 following the entry of the United States into the war. Read more
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Bloody Fight for Hill 351: Skirmish in the Colmar Pocket
By Dan ChampagneOn a cold, dark December morning in 1944, B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment began the slow ascent up Hill 351. Read more
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Steve Stupak: Surviving the German Death March
By Al HemingwayBy 1945, the war in Europe was nearing its conclusion. Having suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the Allies in the Battle of the Bulge, Adolf Hitler’s seemingly indestructible Third Reich was quickly crumbling under the Allied juggernaut. Read more
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The Madman of the Mountain: Adolf Hitler’s Personal Life
By Charles WhitingAdolf Hitler loved children. Before the war consumed all his energies he entertained children at his holiday home on the “mountain” all the time. Read more
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Poles in the West: Fighting in the Falaise Pocket
By Major General Michael ReynoldsThe dismemberment of Poland by the German and Soviet armies in September and early October 1939 saw the temporary destruction of the Polish armed forces. Read more
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The Thunder of Operation Gallop
By Pat McTaggartAs Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Sixth Army lay in its death throes in the ruins of Stalingrad, German forces to the west of the city faced their own kind of hell. Read more
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Was Leon Degrelle a Traitor of Belgium, or a German Army Hero?
By Richard RuleLeon Degrelle was born in 1906 in Belgium to a prosperous family in the French-speaking region of Wallonia. Read more
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Was It Right to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
By Sam McGowanThe most controversial decision of the 20th century—probably in all of history—was the one reportedly made by President Harry S. Read more
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WWII Secrets: The Mysterious Inga Arvad
By Peter KrossShortly before Pearl Harbor, an attractive Danish journalist arrived in the United States to pursue a writing career. Read more
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Leningrad & Tikhvin: Nazi Winter Repulse During Operation Barbarossa
By Pat Mc TaggartThe men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941. Read more
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To Field an Army: A Short History of the Draft
By Mike HaskewThe call of a nation on its civilian population either to create a military force or to augment a standing army is virtually as old as civilization itself. Read more
