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

“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”

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

On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862

A Spain allied with the Nazis in the Second World War would have ruined the Allied campaign in the Middle East, but doomed the Francoist state to an earlier collapse