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The night of June 5th, 1944 was unnaturally quiet along the Kang Canal in Normandy. A thin mist hung over the water, and the only…

The sirens began at 12:20 a.m. on August 26th, 1940. Their whale cutting through the summer darkness over Berlin. In apartments across the Reich capital,…

April 25th, 1945. 16 m beneath the Reich Chancellory Garden, Joseph Gerbles sits at a small wooden table, his face illuminated by the weak yellow…

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…