Rudolf Hess was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, whom Hitler appointed in 1933 as his deputy. He fought in World War I for Germany, joined the Nazi Party in 1920, and participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. In 1941, Hess made a solo flight to Scotland in hopes of convincing […]
Operation Bagration was a Soviet operation during World War II in 1944 that destroyed the Army Group Centre and cleared the path for the Red Army into Warsaw.
Comprehensive analysis of The Fall of Berlin 1945, and what comonalites does it share with Ian Kershaw’s The End and funny facts.
Walther Wenck was the youngest general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He participated in the battle of Berlin, commanding the 12th Army while saving thousands.
Ferdinand Schörner was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht and the final commander-in-chief of the German army (OKH). And after the Second World War’s end, he was convicted and imprisoned for his war crimes by the Soviets. EARLY LIFE Schörner was born on 12 June 1892 in Munich, Germany, the future birthplace of the Nazi
About Antony Beevor Sir Anthony Beevor is a British military historian born on 14 December 1946, a year and six months after the collapse of the Third Reich. Over the years, he has written history books regarding specific battles during World War II. The bestsellers are Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin, 1945, released in
About the Author (Robert M. Citino) Robert Citino is an American military historian who, rather than call the Wehrmacht blitzkrieg “blitzkrieg,” stood on calling it “bewegungskreig.” He popularized this notion with his four books, starting with The German Way of War and ending with Wehrmacht’s Last Stand. All books published between 2005 and 2017 Chapter
This book was very pleasant to read, as Robert Citino had done a great job in making the book readable even to a 16-year-old. A non-native English speaker like myself doesn’t have a problem understanding the book’s content clearly. Although I’ve read multiple World War Two books in the past. Throughout the book, Robert Citino
Chapter 1 In this chapter, Citino makes it clear that in 1942, when the United States entered World War II, the US was strategically backward, especially in sharp contrast to the Germans. The United States positioned infantry first, then tanks behind; the author said the USA was stuck in old ways of war strategy. This
About the author Citino is a German military historian with a specialty in the Second World War. He has published multiple books on the German way of war, which has earned him numerous awards, including the Samuel Elliot Morison Prize in 2021. In his books, he has emphasized that Bewegungskrieg was the proper name for