The season is here in all its glory – a time to celebrate miracles. A baby born in a manger, the oil that burns for eight days – miraculous gifts to be cherished. For most of us, Christmas is the warm ...

1944: Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attacks against London. It is the first guided-missile strike against an enemy city in the history of warfare. The V-1, one of Nazi Germany's so-called ...

After the Allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944, German forces were forced into a desperate retreat. This video examines the battles that shattered their defenses, the encirclement at ...

Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Launched on June 6, 1944, it targeted roughly fifty miles of coastline in Normandy, France. D-Day’s success ...

THE German Army has several tasks which it must fulfill simultaneously. It must resist the Anglo-American invasion. It must oppose the Russians in the east. It must keep the satellite states in line ...

The last eight months of World War II were the war's worst. Even when the result seemed inevitable, the death camps worked to a frenzy, and the allied campaign acquired a brutality all its own, as ...

Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...

On the morning of 8 September 1944, Germany introduced a new secret weapon to its already deadly WW2 arsenal. It came out of nowhere and caused a massive explosion in Paris. There was nothing to ...

Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...