THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...

Anyone else would have quit earlier. Their factories in ruin, their army routed, their air force eliminated, their people struggling and starving, the Nazis fought on, long after victory was all but ...

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On December 16, 1944 three German army divisions of more than 250,000 troops launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the Second World War in the rugged and freezing Luxembourgish, Ardennes ...

In this compelling, first-rate history of the last year of World War II in Europe, Max Hastings not only renders the horrendous battles but also analyzes the reasoning behind the major decisions of ...

From mid-December 1944 through the end of January 1945, in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces struggled to turn ...

Kershaw, author of the definitive biography of Hitler, is unsurpassed as an analyst of the Third Reich's inner dynamics. His latest work addresses a question as significant as it is overlooked. The ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

This huge and splendid volume tells the grim tale of the final collapse of the Third Reich. It does so from the viewpoints of the upper millstone (the Western Allies), the lower millstone (the ...