“to many, hitler was no longer the buffoon who had botched a coup, but a true patriot who could deliver germany from chaos”

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

How the Thule Society’s warped vision of supposed German Aryan heritage influenced the rise of National Socialism

Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”

In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

JACK HIGGINS’ SEMINAL NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED FIVE DECADES AGO THIS MONTH, BUT WAS THE NAZI PLAN TO KIDNAP OR ASSASSINATE THE ‘BIG THREE’ IN TEHRAN GENUINE, OR AN ELABORATE SOVIET FICTION?