By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counteroffensive. So the major December attack through the mountainous Ardennes by massed Panzers and infantry took the Allies tot…
The inside story of a battle that has come to epitomize the mud and blood of World War I—includes significant contributions from the Canadian and ANZAC forces The Battle of Passchendaele is perhaps one of the most iconic of World War I. Continuing for more than three months under some of the worst conditions of the war, fighting became bogged down in a quagmire that made it almost impossib…
One of the bloodiest battles in military history—what happened and why The Battle of the Somme raged from July 1 to November 18, 1916, and was one of the bloodiest fought in military history. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of World War I as hundreds of thousands of men on all sides lost their lives fighting over small gains in land. Yet, this battle also marked a t…
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There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How…