Gerbles and Magda stand together in the garden in the smoke and chaos of Berlin’s death. An SS guard stands nearby with a pistol. The…

September 15th, 1940. Oberlitant Hans Mia, 23, feels the Spitfire’s bullets tear through his Messers BF 109’s engine, cowling before he hears them. The aircraft…
that the war is not a simple story of good versus evil, but a complex tragedy of nations and politics and human failure. Not all…

July 19th, 1940. The Croll Opera House in Berlin blazed with lights and Nazi pageantry as Adolf Hitler stroed to the podium before the rich…
The Luftwaffer had lost over 700 aircraft and their crews. British morale had been tested and held. The United States had moved closer to intervention,…

June 23rd, 1940. Adolf Hitler stands at the Trokado in Paris, the Eiffel Tower rising behind him in the early morning light. He spent 3…
For the German high command, September 1940 brought a realization they had never anticipated. that will, determination, and refusal to accept defeat could matter as…
And in war, effective is all that matters. We learned that lesson. But we learned it from the enemy and we learned it too late.…

June 1941, German Panzas rolled across Soviet territory in the greatest invasion in history, smashing through Red Army positions with methodical efficiency. Panzer crews radioed…
“How did this happen?” As if there should have been some way to prevent it, some decision that would have changed the outcome. But there…





