This video is not monetized. The Second World War produced many tales of heroic soldiers, sailors, pilots and their victories ...

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had landed on Normandy during D-Day and the Soviets were slowly penetrating Eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It can be harder to lose a war than to win one. Nazi Germany won quick victories in 1939 and 1940 against its eastern and western neighbors, Poland and France. Many Germans who had doubted the wisdom ...