
January 7th, 1945. The Arden’s forest is buried under three feet of snow, but inside the British press tent, the atmosphere is electric. Field Marshal…

December 12th, 1944. 2140 hours. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Versailles, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sits alone in his second floor office, cigarette burning…

January 7th, 1945, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery stood before a room full of reporters at his headquarters in Belgium. He had called this press conference…

August 17th, 1943. Two columns of dust rose on the winding roads leading to Msina, Sicily. One flew the Union Jack. The other flew the…

In the spring of 1944, German intelligence officers in Berlin gathered around a conference table covered with photographs, intercepted communications, and reconnaissance reports. They weren’t…

December 19th, 1944, a converted French army barracks in Verdun. The most powerful generals in the Allied command sat around a table, and not one…

May 7th, 1945. General George S. Patton sat across from Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower in a commandeered German mansion outside Frankfurt. Germany had just surrendered…

Colonel Neil Kirby’s P47 Thunderbolt sliced through the thin tropical air at 28,000 ft. The massive radial engine rumbling as he scanned the sky below.…

For 80 years, historians and aviation enthusiasts have argued about one question. Which dive bomber was the most devastating in World War II? Today, we’re…

() July 22nd, 1943. George Patton stood in his command tent in Sicily, reading a report that made his jaw clench. Terry Allen’s First Infantry…




