History Through the Viewfinder
Breaching Hitler's Eastern Wall: Crossing the Dnieper River at the Great Patriotic War Museum.
Breaching Hitler's Eastern Wall: Crossing the Dnieper River at the Great Patriotic War Museum.
Senior Historian Robert M. Citino, PhD, on Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic: “Nolan is particularly good at weaving together war’s three domains: on land, at sea, and in the air. The air battles, often a weak and confusing bore in war films, are as well-presented as any I’ve ever seen, and the German Stuka attacks, especially, are terrifying. No war film is truly realistic, but Dunkirk is as good as it gets.”
When Jefferson Joseph DeBlanc entered Guadalcanal, the United States had been fighting a defensive campaign against Japanese attempts to retake Henderson Airfield and dominate the surrounding seas.
How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.
The True Glory chronicles the Allied liberation of Western Europe, from the preparations for Operation Overlord to the fall of Berlin.