The season is here in all its glory – a time to celebrate miracles. A baby born in a manger, the oil that burns for eight days – miraculous gifts to be cherished. For most of us, Christmas is the warm ...
German investigators are expected in the French village of Maille on Tuesday in the hope that they can help shed light on a WWII massacre in which German forces killed 124 villagers. There is no ...
Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...
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Horrifying Final Days of the German Army in Normandy
In August 1944, the remnants of Germany’s forces fled east toward the Seine, their defeat in Normandy complete. In the French ...
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The Only Flight of the German Kamikaze: The Bachem Ba 349
During the summer of 1944, Germany urgently needed a solution to fight off the constant Allied bombing wrecking its cities, ...
A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...
HISTORY: The End: Hitler's Germany 1944-45,By Ian Kershaw, Allen Lane, 563pp. £30 IN LIGHT OF THE economic crisis facing Europe, it is worth recalling that within living memory the continent overcame ...
THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...
It is not often that I seriously worry, halfway through a book, whether I can face going on to the end of it. I did with this one. My reason was not that it isn’t good. It is magisterial. But I was ...
FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...
Antony Beevor is impressed by Ian Kershaw's The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45, a gripping yet scholarly history of the last bloody days of the Third Reich. ‘Enjoy the war,” went the black joke of ...
Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...
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