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World War II
February 2006
Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war.   |
Military History Quarterly
Winter 2007
Edward L. Bimberg |
Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome. |
World War II
John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
World War II
February 2007
Dick Camp |
The Leatherneck Resistance: A Secret World War II OSS Mission An elite group of Marine paratroopers joins French freedom fighters on a covert mission behind enemy lines. |
World War II
June 2006
Williamson Murray |
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox's Defense of Normandy During World War II, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's decision to stop the Allied invasion of France at the water's edge was contrary to the rule book and anathema to his more tradition-bound contemporaries. |
World War II
Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
World War II
Michael Reynolds |
Massacre at Malmedy By carefully separating fact from fiction, a clearer picture emerges of the events surrounding the infamous execution of American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II
November 2003
Ronald E. Powaski |
World War II: Stopping Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Panzers Much of the future course of World War II was determined by Adolf Hitler's decision in the spring of 1940 to stop Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's panzers at their moment of supreme victory. |
Salon.com
March 28, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
World War II
November 2007
Ronald H. Bailey |
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs in the U.S. during WWII This time, it was German POWs digging their way out of an Arizona prison camp in a plot that was brilliant, daring, and farcical. |
World War II
August 2006
Jonathan W. Jordan |
Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results! |
World War II
Gary Schreckengost |
Buying Time At The Battle Of The Bulge Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II
Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught. |
Military History
April 2007
David A. Bell |
Napoleon's Total War Napoleon's suppression of Spain's 'guerrilla war' of independence 1808-1814 was something new under the sun: a war against everyone. |
World War II
Sep/Oct 2006 |
Lost Prison Interview with Hermann Goring: The Reichsmarschall's Revelations A long-overlooked interview with imprisoned Nazi Hermann Goring provides a window on Hitler's flawed decision-making and explains why Germany's blueprint for victory depended on keeping America out of the war. |
World War II
Jan/Feb 2006
David Lesjak |
A GI's Mission to Capture Hermann Goring In the first days of peace, veteran GI Lester Leggett was part of a bizarre episode that saw him standing guard duty with his former foes. Leggett shares his memories of the raid to bag the Reichsmarshall and the controversy over his capture that lingers to this day. |
Civil War Times
August 2005
John Cabell Early |
A Southern Boy Remembers Gettysburg Major General Jubal Early's nephew recalls the famous meeting on July 1 between his uncle and General Robert E. Lee during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania. |
World War II
Robert Barr Smith |
The Greatest Raid of All The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, eliminated a vital German port facility and cemented the commandos' reputation as redoubtable fighters. |
World War II
May 25, 2004
David R. Jennys |
D-Day's Mighty Host A perilous airborne strike and the mightiest assemblage of seaborne power yet seen heralded the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. |
World War II
May 25, 2004
Kevin R. Austra |
Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach. |
America's Civil War
Donald Scott |
Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
National Defense
May 2006
Grace Jean |
Soldiers Sharpen Humanitarian, Diplomatic Skills In preparation for the launch of a humanitarian aid mission at a refugee camp in Iraq, soldiers are being trained to cope with the unpredictable hurdles that come with interacting with people from a different culture. |
Vietnam
June 2007
Richard C. Barrett |
Bud Day: Vietnam War POW Hero The only American POW to escape North Vietnam missed being rescued by minutes, costing him more than five years in brutal captivity. |
Salon.com
September 18, 2000
David Lazarus |
In the shadow of Auschwitz After World War II, 800 years of history came to a standstill in the Polish city of Oswiecim. Fifty years later, residents are growing restless. |
World War II
December 2006 |
Letters from Readers American's Aussie Memories... The Reichsmarschall's Final Resting Place... Bar Sergeant Had a Name... |
Parameters
Summer 2006
Lou DiMarco |
Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency. |
Civil War Times
December 2003
Eric Ethier |
Who Was the Common Soldier of the Civil War? Here's what the statistics tell us. |
Civil War Times
January 2008 |
Letters From Readers Don't Forget Camp Morton... Thanks for the Picacho Story... Honoring the Rebel Flag... etc. |
Parameters
Autumn 2006
Samuel J. Newland |
Review Essay Book review: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo... etc. |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
High on Adventure
June 2005
Lee Juillerat |
A Darker Side of History Visiting Manzanar National Historic Monument is taking a glimpse at an unfortunate chapter in American history, when Japanese Americans were sent to camps. |
Civil War Times
October 2006 |
Letters from Readers Andersonville vs. Camp Douglas... Mail From the Front... Lincoln's Gettysburg Addressees... |
