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Reporter's Notebook: Recalling an American WWII hero who helped fight off Nazi forces during Normandy invasion
Eighty-one years after William Owens helped stop Nazi forces in Normandy, the Army posthumously awarded him the Distinguished ...
Historians mocked Frederick Forsyth’s The Odessa File – but it may have helped catch a Nazi
The film adaptation of Forsyth’s 1972 novel led to the exposure of Eduard Roschmann, the ‘Butcher of Riga’, in the depths of South America ...
US military parade has global counterparts in democracies, monarchies and totalitarian regimes
The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are ...
Marthe Cohn, a Wartime Jewish Nurse Who Spied for the French, Dies at 105
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded ...
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Marzabotto: A Choice Between Freedom and Totalitarianism
Today, at the heart of the Italian left, a clear choice is re-emerging: to turn one’s back on freedom and find comfort beside totalitarianism. After September 8, there was no ambiguity: you were ...
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Steel Monster in the Shadows: The Forgotten Killer of Normandy
Throughout World War 2 the one tank above all else that would strike fear into the heart of Allied soldiers was the Tiger Tank. After the failure of Operation Lüttich - the German counter attack into ...
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Patton’s Daring Rescue - 35,000 Lives at Risk Behind Nazi Lines
The 38th Waffen SS would become one of the last barriers to the advancing Americans…After Operation Varsity in late March of ...
Frederick Forsyth, Author of ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ Dies at 86
The British journalist turned novelist wrote other thrillers that became movies, too, including 'The Odessa File,' 'The Dogs ...