Author: Walter S. Zapotoczny

In the early morning hours of 16 December 1944, the 28th Division received a message from higher headquarters telling them to hold at all costs. Fr...

Accounts of brutality fill the history of warfare. The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, whether in war or in p...

When war broke out in 1939, Hitler created `Strafbattalion'' (Penal Battalion) units to deal with incarcerated members of the Wehrmacht as well as ...

When most people think of the Italian Army in North Africa during the Second World War, they tend to believe that the average Italian soldier offer...