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“Mercatante knows the current literature on the German army as well as anyone… and offers a new interpretation of Operation Barbarossa (usually seen as the great German blunder of the war) as, in fact, Germany’s last and best hope actually to win the war. A book filled with fresh argumentation of this sort, should generate a fair amount of discussion and even controversy… I know I would pick up a book of this sort as soon as I saw it, and I am fairly certain that I will not be alone.”

Robert M. Citino, history professor, consultant on the History Channel, author of eight books including The Death of the Wehrmacht, The German Way of War, and more. Quoted from his endorsement of Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe.

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Seeking World War II Era Dowding System Operators

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 16:11

Heads up everybody. The Association of Royal Air Force Fighter Control Officers is looking to get in touch with all operators, male or female, of the Royal Air Force's World War II era (1939-1945) warning system known as the "Dowding System" as follows:

“Working under the closest secrecy since 1939, over 4,000 Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) personnel have played an important part in the air victories achieved by radiolocation (Radar). They tracked hostile and friendly aircraft, flying bombs and rockets, German E Boats and Allied Merchant vessels, and have guided British and Allied

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Women's Auxiliary Air Force

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Memorial Day 2012

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 17:38

It is my hope that everybody in the United States is spending at least some time today thinking of the sacrifices made by our veterans over the two plus centuries of our nation's existence. In particular, and given this website's focus, I hope people take a moment to think of those who gave their lives during the Second World War - the last time this nation's independence and way of life has truly been threatened during an actual shooting war.

As such, and in special remembrance of our Second World War veterans, please find here a series of pictures of one of World War II's iconic ships; the

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Imperial Japanese Navy

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This Month in History: ULTRA's Big Break

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 15:16

During World War II Nazi Germany primarily encoded its messages through the use of what was known as the "Enigma" machine. Enigma’s use by the Wehrmacht stretched back to the early 1930s and originated from a design created by Hugo Alexander Koch in the Netherlands.

Although heavily modified prior to the Second World War’s onset, the Enigma machines used in 1939-1945 remained similar to Koch’s prototypes from two decades prior. For a variety of reasons the Enigma machine was extraordinarily difficult to crack.

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Battle for the Atlantic

Hugo Alexander Koch

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The End of the Bloodiest War in History: Part IV

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 20:16

This final part in our series on the human cost of the Second World War in Europe will look at the nation most responsible for plunging humanity into global warfare: Germany. Though in the United States of America the Second World War is often cast today as the last "good war", in reality there were few nation's that participated in the war, willingly or not, and emerged from the war with entirely clean hands.

I make this observation because the people of Germany were both the perpetrators and, in some cases, victims of the violence Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime unleashed across all of

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Second World War Death Toll

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The End of the Bloodiest War in History: Part III

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 20:14

Part II of our series on the human cost of the Second World War in Europe detailed Eastern Europe and Poland’s immense suffering. Part III now turns to the country that bore perhaps the worst of Nazi Germany's aggression; the Soviet Union and its Red Army.

Beginning with military losses, the Red Army suffered 29 million casualties during the Second World War; including 11,444,100 killed, missing, or captured with 8,668,400 killed in action. These figures utterly dwarf those of any other of the war’s major military establishments. Even capture meant death for much of the War.

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Soviet Losses in WWII