Hitler had from the beginning posited the war effort as presenting only two possible outcomes: total victory or absolute defeat.

His portrayal in the 1970 film Patton aside, British General Bernard L. Montgomery was a great asset to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in planning for the D-Day invasion. 

On the eve of Veterans Day, The National WWII Museum in New Orleans will unveil its newest attraction, Expressions of America, a first-of-its-kind nighttime sound and light show celebrating the power of individual Americans to impact the world around them during a time of monumental conflict.

How public opinion influenced military policy on poison gas in World War II. 

News of the crushing Soviet victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 over the Third Reich and its satellite states struck the rest of Europe, indeed the globe, like a thunderbolt.