June 2010
Special 65th anniversary issue:
Bringing Down the Reich
Intruders in the Fatherland
Advancing Americans had already pierced Hitler's fabled Westwall defenses. Now they faced the final barrier to Germany's heartland: the Rhine River. By Michael Edwards
Wrecking Hitler's Ruhr arsenal
Germnayu's war machine depended on other machines, in the humming factories of the Ruhr--where Allied armies were closing in fast. By Eric Grenier
Battle for the Boot
Most Italians were through fighting the Allies. But the German forces in Italy weren't going to relinquish the land of the Caesars. Not without a fight. By Eric Ethier
West meets East
Vodka toasts, feasts, and dancing spelled doom for the Third Reich when eastward-marching GIs met westbound Soviets at the Elbe River. By Michael Sherbon
End of Hitler, start of peace?
A suicide in a bunker and the fall of Berlin bring an end to Nazi aggression--and the start of a new war of words, spies, and nerves. By Dr. Allan R. Millet
Plus--among much more--three shorts by Brian John Murphy:
GI life in the field
The unbearable discovery
Victory!--and more war
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