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"Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using the 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The battle degenerated into...

"Berlin knew the D-Day invasion was coming, so how did the Germans view the impending invasion and campaign? Previous histories have focused on the "clash of the generals" but this battle would be fought by divisional and regimental commanders: the "German D-Day colonels" upon wh...

"Nazi Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed into Stalin’s Red Army, reaching the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Sevastopol. But not all of this vast army was German; i...

"After the collapse of the German Army in the West in August 1944, the western Allies raced towards the borders of the Reich itself, and in the East the victorious Red Army was doing the same - everyone believed the war would be over by Christmas. But it wasn’t. Somehow, Nazi Ger...

Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant. Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries, and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even i...