She was only 20 years old, but Roza Shanina became one of the most lethal marksmen of WWII. Known as the "Invisible Terror," she recorded 54 confirmed kills before her life was tragically cut short in ...

Last week we looked at the origins of House Hohenzollern and the Thirty Years’ War that brought Brandenburg-Prussia close to ...

For a week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. “One of the war’s bloodiest struggles,” “mammoth offensive,” “grand assault,” “unheard-of numerical superiority,” “monstrous force.” ...

Answering German demands for Danzig, one prominent Polish newspaper today called for the return of East Prussia to Poland, while the country celebrated the anniversary of the 1791 Constitution, the ...

Witnesses tell not only of the terror of flight but also of responsibility, guilt and innocence, hopes and fears in the years before and during the war. The story of ...

The stage was set in Poland and the cast was in the wings. The Russian-German front from East Prussia to the Carpathians bore a strong resemblance to the Vitebsk front just before Joseph Stalin’s ...

New Yrok: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Pp. xii, 366. Illus., map, notes, biblio., index. $28.00. ISBN: 0374158088 Forgotten Land is a mélange of different strata ...