15 March 1939, Prague. German troops enter the city without resistance, and Czechoslovakia ceases to exist under mounting pressure from Nazi Germany. By the end of the day, swastika flags fly above Prague, and the occupation of the Czech lands becomes an irreversible reality. On the following day, by proclamation from Prague Castle, Adolf Hitler…
Poland, 1st of September 1939. At dawn, without a declaration of war, German artillery opens fire across the Polish border. Stukas dive from the clouds, their sirens screaming, as Polish towns erupt in flames. Columns of Wehrmacht the German Armed Forces roll forward in tight formation – armoured spearheads breaking through, motorized infantry following fast…
Outside the town of Neneig, Germany in January 1945, a Sherman tank took a direct hit from a Tiger. Gus Stavros was close enough to watch what happened next. The crew tried to get out. They came through the hatches burning. Stavros, a combat veteran by then, had seen men die before, but this was…
10 May 1940. German forces strike westward without warning, and the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded in a single morning. Paratroopers fall from the sky, tanks roll across fields, and the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, rains bombs on cities and civilians. The Dutch army fights bravely but cannot withstand the lightning German assault….
22 June 1941, Eastern Europe. German forces launch Operation Barbarossa – a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, opening a new phase of the Second World War. Armies advance rapidly across vast territories, cities fall within days, and behind the front lines follows a system of terror aimed not only at defeating an enemy, but…
At 0815 on February 23rd, 1945, machine gunfire rad the black volcanic sand of Eoima. Corporal Hershel Williams pressed flat against it. 70 lb of pressurized fuel on his back, rounds splitting the air a foot above his helmet. 21 years old, 5’6, trained on Guadal Canal with a weapon most Marines refused to carry….
In 1967, Arthur Penn released Bonnie and Clyde and turned two poor Texas killers into cinematic icons of forbidden love and rebellion against the system. The world bought it. You probably bought it, too. I’m going to destroy that myth, not with opinion, but with 21 documented facts that Hollywood knowingly left out. Fact one,…
On September 1st, 1939, Poland was executed within a Blitzkrieg hurricane and carved up by devastating geopolitical ambitions. The crushing of defense lines on the battlefield was merely the beginning. As shortly thereafter, the Nazi and Soviet pincers closed, erasing the national status of a thousand-year-old nation with just a few cold penstrokes on the…
It was May 15th, 2016, and George Foreman was sitting in his Texas home when his phone rang. The voice on the other end was Lonnie Ali, Muhammad’s wife. Her message was simple and devastating. Muhammad didn’t have much time left. His Parkinson’s had progressed to the point where he was barely responsive. The doctors…
You’re a coward. The words cut through the warm buzz of conversation in the crowded German bar. 40 heads turned. The American soldier who shouted it was drunk, swaying, his uniform disheveled, but his finger pointed straight at Muhammad Ali, who sat quietly at a corner table with his small entourage. Frankfurt, West Germany, October…
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