Sustained mobility was the game-changer of 20th-century warfare, and it gave Adolf Hitler the confidence to wage the greatest war in human history.

How a forceful German counterattack in February 1944 could not push back the Allied Anzio landing.

When we think of World War II, the first images that enter our minds usually involve battle: armies fighting their desperate struggles on land, huge navies patrolling the oceans, and aircraft soaring sleekly overhead.

How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

How the sheer raw power of the Allies overwhelmed the Germans.

A WWII US Army lieutenant who called artillery fire onto his position is posthumously recognized for valor.

The heroic stand of Finland against the Soviet Union in 1939 was a lesson for the ages.

A new look at Field Marshal Rommel and his North African campaigns.

The Freikorps were nothing if not the shock troops, the advance guard, of the Third Reich.

On the connection between the massive Soviet counterattack and the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.