What if Hitler had released the panzers immediately? What if he’d authorized RML to position them closer to the coast? What if he’d accepted that…
The Americans hadn’t just proven more formidable. They had demonstrated a capacity for industrial warfare that exceeded even the most optimistic Allied predictions from 1941.…

December 11th, 1941. Adolf Hitler stroed to the podium of the Haiktag in Berlin’s Cole Opera House. His voice rising with theatrical fury as he…

June 3rd, 1942. Aboard the aircraft carrier Akagi, Vice Admiral Tuichi Nagumo stood on the bridge as his flagship cut through the North Pacific swells.…
He couldn’t abandon the Midway Strike Force, which was now landing. Some aircraft were damaged, some low on fuel. Turning them away would mean losing…

December 7th, 1941. Winston Churchill sat in his study at Checkers, the prime minister’s country residence, when the news came through. The Japanese had attacked…
The Americans brought that power and watching them march through London, Churchill allowed himself to believe fully for perhaps the first time since becoming prime…

Plymouth Harbor, January 1944. Admiral Sir Charles Little, commander-in-chief of Portsmouth, stood at his office window, watching another convoy into the sound. 18 American Liberty…
American landing craft, American fire support ships that had been allocated to the British sectors. By the end of D-Day, 156,000 Allied troops were ashore…

June 4th, 1942. Vice Admiral Tuichi Nagumo stood on the bridge of the carrier Akagi, watching his aircraft return from their strike on Midway Island.…
