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Goldap Operation: Soviets in the Prussian Heartland
By Pat McTaggartSoviet General Ivan Danilovich Cherniakhovskii was in a good mood as he waited for his generals to arrive. Read more
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The Eastern Front during World War II includes the area of military confrontation involving the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Soviet Red Army and the Nazi Wehrmacht clashed along the extended Eastern Front, which stretched thousands of miles from the Black Sea in the south to Finland and the approaches to the Arctic Circle in the north.
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The Big Three in Tehran: The Meeting That Shaped WWII
By Michael D. HullWorld War II made a disparate trio of allies —British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Marshal Joseph Stalin, and American President Franklin D. Read more
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The Battle of Kiev: How it Brought About an End to Nazi Terror
By Pat McTaggartIt was less than a month since the great blood letting in the Orel salient in July 1943 had taken place, and just some months to go before the infamous Second Battle of Kiev. Read more
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Fighting on the Volkhov Front: The First Soviet Counteroffensive at Leningrad
By Pat McTaggartThe great city of Leningrad was being strangled, its people dying by the thousands.
Death came in many ways. Read more
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Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’s Drive to the Don
By Pat McTaggartRostov was the key to the Caucasus and the rich Soviet oil fields that lay along the Black and Caspian Seas. Read more
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The Most Dangerous Woman of World War II
By Charles W. SasserThe last train west chugged across the River Bug to the German-occupied side of the Russo-German border at 0200 on June 22, 1941. Read more
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Military Book Reviews: George S. Patton and Erwin Rommel
by Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr.American General George S. Patton, Jr., and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel both demonstrated the masterful employment of armored forces in many World War II military campaigns. Read more
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Cauldron of Death: the Demyansk Salient and the Eastern Front
by Pat McTaggartOn the vast Eastern Front, the Demyansk salient represented little more than a smudge on the battle map. Read more
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World War I Weapons: Germany’s Big Guns
By William ScheckWorld War I’s stalemate on the Western Front ushered up varied solutions. The Allies developed tanks for traversing no man’s land to get at the enemy. Read more
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Dueling Aces in Sevastopol
By Christer Bergström and Andrey MikhailovIn June 1942, the Black Sea port of Sevastopol on the Crimea was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. 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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Sherman Tanks vs. Tiger Tanks: Which Was Best at the Bulge?
by Michael D. HullWhen American soldiers landed in France in June 1944 as part of the great Allied crusade to liberate Europe, they were well trained, fully equipped, and brimming with confidence. Read more
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The Supermarine Spitfire and the Battle of Britain
by William F. Floyd Jr.On March 5, 1936, the new Supermarine Type 300 took off from Southampton, England. The plane would soon be called the Spitfire, and along with the Hawker Hurricane it would become Great Britain’s first line of defense. Read more
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Military Vehicles: German Motorcycles in WWII
by G. Paul GarsonAfter September 1, 1939, and Germany’s invasion of Poland, a trickle of so-called “death cards” began appearing in homes across the Third Reich. Read more
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A Masterful German Defense at the Battle of Seelow Heights
By William E. WelshThe officers huddled in a candlelit cellar in an abandoned farmhouse midway between the Oder River and Berlin. Read more
