Stalingrad

Key point: These tanks were very solid and could be mass-produced in the thousands. Germany did not have an equivalent. In 1942, careworn Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler lamented to his military intimates at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia, “If I had known that there were so many of…

Skip to comments. Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague Townhall.com ^ | May 14, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson Posted on 05/14/2020 3:47:57 AM PDT by Kaslin Seventy-five years ago this month, Germany surrendered, ending the European theater of World War II. At the war's beginning, no one believed…

Planning your dream vacation to Paris post lockdown? You may be filled with questions about your visit, especially if it will be your first time visiting the French capital. We’ve compiled a list here of 10 things you should know before you come to Paris. 1. Paris is safe Paris…

Drew Angerer / Getty Images Carolyn Reidy, the longtime president and CEO of Simon & Schuster who championed multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, died on Tuesday morning after having a heart attack. She was 71. After serving as president of Avon Books, Reidy joined Simon & Schuster in 1992 and became…

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill gave his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister. While German troops were tearing through Western Europe, a defiant Churchill famously told the British people that there was one objective: “Victory”. In the meantime, he had “nothing to offer but blood,…

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill gave his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister. While German troops were tearing through Western Europe, a defiant Churchill famously told the British people that there was one objective: “Victory”. In the meantime, he had “nothing to offer but blood,…

Andre Harrell, recording artist Mary J. Blige and producer Sean 'Diddy' Combs in 2018 (Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images) Andre Harrell, whose death over the weekend at age 59 stunned the hip-hop world and beyond in show business, was wary when I met him in the early 1990s. After all, I…

“You sayin’, you want a piece of me?” Tony Maglio | May 11, 2020 @ 5:17 AM Last Updated: May 11, 2020 @ 6:32 AM Everyone on the “Seinfeld” set wanted a piece of Jerry Stiller’s comedic greatness, and they got it. When the iconic NBC sitcom’s nine seasons were…

On March 12, 1939, Heroes’ Memorial Day (or Veterans Day) in the Nazi Third Reich, the thousands of onlookers at the giant annual parade in Berlin were treated to an unusual sight as a small monoplane landed on the Unter den Linden between Hermann Göring’s State Opera House and the…

Here's What You Need To Remember: The Russo-German War was no ordinary conflict fought over territory or resources. For Nazi Germany, it was a war of extermination and subjugation that would have killed the Russian people or reduced them to slavery. For the Soviet Union, it was a war of survival…