The 526th Armored Infantry Battalion: The Elite Unit the Battle of the Bulge Forgot
The Big Red One wasn’t the only unit during Operation Overlord and D-Day whose regiment was overshadowed by the so-called Band of Brothers. Easy Company,…
The Red Ball Express: Black soldiers and the logistics of liberation
The Red Ball Express is generally well known in the history of the Second World War. A film of the same name has even been…
Boys, Old Men, and a Lost War: The Volkssturm and Germany’s Final Mobilisation
After the horrors of Stalingrad, the collapse of the Eastern Front, Operation Bagration, and the aftermath of the Allied landings on the Western Front during…