Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women….

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest..

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, ….

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry ch….

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans a….

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful ….

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I….

I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I g….

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevent….

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army w….

I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challeng….

There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the….

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The st….

In battle, topography is fate..

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions..