In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the ...

(These are World War II’s biggest battles.) Throughout the war, there were pivotal battles that turned the tide for one side or the other but these all came at great cost. The military assets ...

Great Naval Battles IV Burning Steel expands the scope of SSI’s line of naval simulators to include World War II naval actions in many of the theaters that saw the shadow of the battle wagon.

The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War ... the Marne was a great strategic victory ...

The Second Battle of El Alamein was a turning point in the North African campaign. It ended the long fight for the Western Desert, and was the only great land battle won by the British and ...

The facts, however, were bright as a bayonet: > This had been one of the great battles of the China War, engaging a quarter million or more men. > The Japanese had used at least five regular ...

On Oct. 26, 1944, after four days of furious fighting, the World War II battle of Leyte Gulf, largest air-naval clash in ...