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

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

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

The forced landing of a shot-up Junkers Ju 88A bomber of Kampfgeschwader (KG) 77 on the north Kent coast in late September 1940, during one of the bloodiest days of the Battle of Britain, gave rise to

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind