By Pat McTaggart

The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. To most of the young soldiers of the army group it seemed that this   More »

From 1939 to 1945, World War II engulfed the Allied and Axis nations in a conflict of unprecedented proportion, shaping the future for generations.   More »

This week we hear from William Welsh, editor of Military Heritage Magazine, who’s compiled a list of personal favorites for books on World War II.   More »

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa, the Luftwaffe led the way with approximately 440 Me-109 types.   More »

Adolf Hitler rose from obscurity to lead the Nazi Party to power in Germany and embarked on a campaign of conquest and destruction.   More »

By Blaine Taylor
April 1, 1939, was a red-letter day in the history of the reborn German Kriegsmarine for two key reasons. First, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler presented the fleet’s chief, Erich Raeder, with an ornate, icon-studded Navy blue baton of office as the first grand admiral since the days of   More »

Stalking in the shadows, snipers played an important role in World War II, just as much as any tank, airplane or artillery piece.   More »

For centuries Königsberg had been one of the most important cities of Germany; its capture was the finale of a two-month Soviet siege.   More »

Some historians attribute the fall of the Iron Curtain to President Franklin Roosevelt’s gross miscalculation of the Soviet Union in World War II. British historian Alan Clark writes in his book Barbarossa that “Roosevelt’s betrayal of Eastern Europe, whether out of calculation or gullibility, is so notorious as to need   More »

The roles of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin in the betrayal of Eastern Europe.   More »