WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
The Imperial War Museum
By Roy StevensonAlthough 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
Operation Long Jump: The Nazi Assassination Attempt on the “Big Three”
By Mason B. WebbIn 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
WWII: German Rations and Feeding the Troops of the Third Reich
By G. Paul GarsonIt 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
The Rise of Ike: Supreme Allied Commander in the Making
By Eric HammelDwight David Eisenhower began life as David Dwight Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas, on October 14, 1890, the third of five sons. Read more
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
Battle of Metz: Patton’s Bloody Fortress Battle
By William E. WelshLieutenant General George Patton’s Third Army had come a long way since it was activated on August 1 in Normandy. Read more
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
The Soviet Winter Offensive: From the Vistula to the Oder
By Henrik Lunde The Situation in the East, Summer 1944The 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
Escape to Tashkent: Fleeing Operation Barbarossa
By Rebecca ManleyIn 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
First Battle of Savo Island: The U.S. Navy’s Worst Defeat
By Eric HammelA 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
WWII Quarterly Summer 2011
Coming of Age at Tarawa
By Nick CarielloIt 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
