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The Kamikaze: Japan's Desperate Gamble
By late 1944, Japan was losing the war. The American advance across the Pacific was relentless. The Japanese navy had been crippled. Their air force was de…
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The Liberation of Paris: A City Freed
August 1944. The Allies were racing across France after the breakout from Normandy. The French Resistance, which had been waiting for this moment, rose up…
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The Battle of Stalingrad: Hell on Earth
There's never been a battle like Stalingrad. From August 1942 to February 1943, two armies fought to the death in a city on the Volga. The Germans wanted S…
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The Fall of France: Blitzkrieg in the West
Everyone expected a long war. The French had built the Maginot Line, an impressive chain of fortifications along the German border. They believed it was im…
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Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. Roosevelt's words captured the shock. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. Two waves of…
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The Rise of Hitler: How Germany Descended Into Madness
How did it happen? That's the question everyone asks when they study World War II. How did a failed artist and former soldier become the dictator of German…
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The War That Changed the World Forever
World War II remade the planet. The old empires, Britain, France, the European colonial powers, were bankrupt and exhausted. The new superpowers, the Unite…
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The Manhattan Project: Building the Atomic Bomb
Deep in the New Mexico desert, a group of scientists changed the world. They didn't know it at the time, not really. They were racing against the Germans…
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The War at Sea: U-Boats, Convoys, and the Battle of the Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean became a killing ground. German U-boats hunted in wolf packs, sinking merchant ships carrying supplies to Britain. At the start of the w…