If in 1919 the question arose regarding which of the Great European Powers stood destined to drive Europe’s twentieth century fortunes, few candidates would have stood out as more unlikely than the Soviet Union.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 24 2011 - 2:22pm
Review Type: Cold War, Communist Party, genocide, Gorbachev, Gulag, Hitler, kulak, Lenin, purges, Soviet Union, Stalin, Third Reich, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, WWII, Yeltsin
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 19 2011 - 9:32pm
The Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16, 1944 is widely remembered today as the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Army during the Second World War. For many, the focal point of this remembrance remains the Belgian town of Bastogne. Bastogne was a critical regional communications hub, ultimately encircled and besieged by German forces from December 19th to the 26th. The elite U.S.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 16 2011 - 7:54pm
In World War Two’s waning days, during the fall of 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered up one last role of the dice designed to stave off final defeat. This plan sought to punch through the densely forested, hilly, but lightly guarded Ardennes and reach Antwerp – thereby cutting off numerous Allied armies in a massive pocket similar to what his armies had accomplished four years prior.
German plans called for Sepp Dietrich’s Sixth SS Panzer Army to lead the assault through the Ardennes; as the northern
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 12 2011 - 1:51am
Precisely seventy years ago, on December 11, 1941, Adolf Hitler declared war upon the United States. Today, this declaration of war is remembered as one of history’s great strategic blunders, and rightly so, nonetheless the reasons underpinning this remembrance have little to do with how and why war against the United States led to the Third Reich’s defeat.
Review Type: Germany, Soviet Union, U-boat, United States, Why Germany Nearly Won, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 7 2011 - 12:30am
On December 7, 1941 over 350 Japanese aircraft launched from six aircraft carriers hammered US military installations across Oahu, Hawaii. The focal point for their attack was the elements of the US Pacific Fleet then at anchor at the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. This attack killed over 2,400 Americans and sank or damaged eight battleships (with two total losses), three cruisers, three destroyers, some auxiliary ships, and destroyed 183 aircraft.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 4 2011 - 8:05pm
Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet counterattack before Moscow that put the final nail in Barbarossa' s coffin. Though the grossly overextended German army in the Soviet Union had long since been ground down to a fraction of its strength from six months prior; this counterstroke would do tremendous damage to a Wehrmacht badly positioned for defending against a strategic level counter offensive.
Review Type: Army Group Center, Barbarossa, Battle for Moscow, Battles, Bock, Eastern Theater of Operations, Guderian, Halder, Kalinin Front, Moscow, OKH, Panzer, Second Panzer Army, Third Panzer Army, WWII, Zhukov
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 3 2011 - 5:57pm
A large unexploded WWII era bomb dropped by the RAF (Royal Air Force) has been discovered in the mud along the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany. This discovery, along with two smaller bombs found nearby, is forcing the temporary evacuation of 45,000 people while the ordnance is defused and removed. As many now know Germany took a fearful pounding during WWII.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 28 2011 - 9:01pm
On November 22, 2011 Josef Stalin's sole surviving child, Lana (formerly Svetlana) Peters (her married name following her 1967 defection from the Soviet Union and marriage to her third husband - an American) died of cancer. Born on February 28, 1926 she was 85 years old.
Review Type: Soviet Union, Stalin, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 27 2011 - 2:39am
The house where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazi's during their Second World War occupation of the Netherlands is being opened to the public for a single day in December, 2011. Though able to escape Nazi capture for two years ultimately Anne Frank and her family were found - resulting in Anne Frank's death in a concentration camp in 1945. Anne Frank was one of over one hundred thousand Jews from the Netherlands killed by Germany during WWII.
Review Type: genocide, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 22 2011 - 2:57pm
The remains of six former soldiers from the Red Army are to be reinterred from their current burial location in Finland. Currently located in South Karelia the remains were discovered outside the city of Lappeenranta and will be moved to an official cemetary for Soviet prisoners of war who died during the 1941-1944 war fought between the Soviet Union and Germany and its Axis allies - including Finland.
Review Type: Finland, Karelia, Mannerheim, POW, Red Army, Soviet Union, Stalin, Winter War, WWII
