Germany failed at Normandy because everything went wrong at once. Hitler insisted the invasion would hit Calais, delayed the Panzer response while he slept, and refused to accept Normandy was the real ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battle Academy: Rommel in Normandy This time, play the Normandy campaign from the other side and play as the Germans and their mighty Tigers through ten ...

The epic heroism on the D-Day beaches is well-known. But few remember the blood-soaked battles that came next. Brought to life in this major series by one of our greatest historians, they are an ...

When Hitler ordered Erwin Rommel to prepare for an Allied invasion of the north of France in 1944, the German field marshal found the defense of “the Atlantic Wall” deficient. Innovation and effort, ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley, who had ...

June 6 is a remarkable date in the annals of great American military battles and victories. Eighty years ago today, the Battle of Midway (June 4-6) ended. Two years later, the allies landed at ...

After more than a year of preparations, the most ambitious and decisive Allied assault of World War II came down to three simple words uttered by a commander in chief whose chain smoking and 15 ...

IT WAS GORE Vidal who called Ronald Reagan “the Acting President,” and it would be lacking in insight to regard this barbed tribute as merely disparaging. Another screen actor, David Niven, was ...

THE LONGEST DAY (350 pp.)—Cornelius Ryan—Simon & Schuster ($4.95). No Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day’s luckiest augury was a pair of women’s grey suede shoes ...