"I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." Genesis 9:13 It was just about this time of year, mid-March 1945. We were approaching the German Siegfried ...

The headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end.

In airborne operations vaster than those of D-Day, Gen. Eisenhower committed his parachute and glider troops to action in Holland yesterday "or the first time under their new unified command, while ...

Autumn leaves falling at Oosterbeek (Arnhem) Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. Had the soldiers who were laid to rest in this cemetery succeeded they would have entered Germany by avoiding ...

Learn how the German Army secretly worked on one of history's greatest fortifications. Five times the length of Hadrian’s Wall, Hitler’s Siegfried Line was one of the greatest fortifications in the ...

Exploring The Remains Of Hitler's Siegfried Line In Hürtgen Forest' War historian James Rogers heads to the Hürtgen Forest on the border between Belgium and Germany to explore the remains of the ...

The story of the men who built and gave their lives defending this great fortification. The idea of a mighty defensive system stretching along Germany’s western front first comes to Hitler in 1936 ...