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Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

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In the last week of his life, the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, amazed his closest associates with exhaustion and sickly appearance. This information is provided on November 20 in unique ...

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Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision ...

The Junkers Ju 88 is so versatile that it seems contractually obligated to appear in every "Top 10 Second World War Aircraft" ...

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Descended from famine emigrants, William Donovan led the OSS in World War II and laid the groundwork for the modern CIA ...