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Lightning Strike on Poland
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The blitzkrieg against Poland was Hitler's "masterstroke" and the debut of the Nazi German war machine. The German army's lightning strike shocked not…
The Capture of Berlin
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Berlin was the last strategic offensive campaign organized and carried out by the Soviet Red Army, and its ferocity was in no way inferi…
Bloodbath in the Ardennes
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of the Ardennes was the last large-scale offensive launched by Nazi Germany on the Western Front, exhausting its last elite forces. For the…
Strangling Kursk
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle of the Second World War and the turning point of the Soviet-German War. In this battle, the two sides …
Defending Stalingrad in Blood
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Stalingrad, remembered for its brutal street fighting, was a turning point on the Eastern Front of World War II and involved more combat…
Death Battle at Midway
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific War between Japan and the United States, where the U.S. Navy won a decisive victory over a s…
Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor marked Japan's formal declaration of war on the United States. The strike had long been in the making: Ja…
Holding Moscow to the Death
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
Moscow, the city that does not fall. Napoleon had come to grief here before, and Hitler knew that history well. Yet why was he determined to take Mosc…
Bloodshed in Leningrad
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
Nine hundred days and nights: years of bitter struggle between the soldiers and civilians of Leningrad and the Nazi German army, a desperate contest o…
Operation Barbarossa: The War Demon
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
Hitler assembled three army groups—North, Centre, and South—and launched a full-scale assault on the Soviet Union from north to south, aiming to crush…
The Eagle's Attack on Britain
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
Britain failed to stop Hitler's war machine from crushing Poland and shattering France, and its own capital was picked apart by German "eagles." What …
Storming the Beaches of Normandy
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The code name for the Normandy landings was Operation Overlord, and it remains the largest amphibious assault in history. The Allies deployed more tha…
Bloodbath at Leyte Gulf
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history and the last great carrier-versus-carrier confrontation. It was in this battle that t…
Fierce Battle in the Marianas
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of the Philippine Sea was the largest carrier-versus-carrier engagement in world history. American planes shot down Japanese aircraft with …
Surprise Attack on France
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
Before World War II, France was hailed as "Europe's foremost military power," yet within mere weeks it fell victim to Hitler's Germany. How did German…
Seizing the Island of Sicily
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The invasion of Sicily was the first large-scale amphibious landing undertaken by the Anglo-American Allies—in effect, a rehearsal for D-Day. The camp…
Duel in the Atlantic
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The vast Atlantic, with undercurrents surging, because the "wolf packs" are on the move. Germany's submarine groups had an eerie name in World War II—…
Bloody Fight at El Alamein
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of El Alamein could well be called a "showdown" between Montgomery and Rommel. It was not only a great contest of military intelligence bet…
Fierce Fighting at Guadalcanal
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The Battle of Guadalcanal was another major defeat for Japan after Midway, and with it Japan's strategic advantage was gone for good. In this campaign…
Nuclear Attack on Japan
Volumes Publishing Company · 2023
The nuclear attack on Japan was the first use of nuclear weapons in world history. The desperate resistance of Japanese fascism provided a rare testin…