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What if Hitler was assassinated in 1943? An Alternative History of Kursk and the End of World War II in Europe
This is an alternative history of how the Germans might have avoided the disaster at Kursk. It looks at what might have happened if an actual assassination attempt on Hitler had succeeded in March 1943 and how Manstein might have … Continue reading →
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An Introduction to D-Day and the Normandy Campaign
The author with Marines at Point du Hoc, Normandy in 2004 Every year about this time I try to write about D-Day. Last year I posted several articles as I had in 2009 as well. This year I spent more … Continue reading →
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Preparing for D-Day
The planning for the Normandy invasion began in earnest after the QUADRANT conference in Quebec in August 1943 and its timetable was established at the Tehran conference where Stalin sided with the Americans on the need for an invasion of … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 12th ss panzer division, 1st infantry division, 21st panzer division, 29th infantry divsion, 352nd infantry division, 8th air force, abwehr, air marshal leigh-mallory, alfred jodl, allied manpower defeciencies, british 79th armored division, colonel baron von roenne, D-Day, dd drive tanks, dieppe raid, erwin rommel, gallipoli, general hobart, general spaatz, george c marshall, german 15th army, german 709th infantry division, german 7th army, german static divsions, le harve, Luftwaffe, max hastings, neptune, normandy, normandy invasion, OKW, Omaha beach, operation anvil, operation fortitude, operation overlord, panzer divisions, pas de calais, quadrant conference, roundup, russell weigley, Salerno, seine river, shaef, tarawa, transportation plan, ultra, utah beach
The American Campaign in Normandy
Note: This is the first of a series of four articles dealing with the campaign in France and Germany in 1944-1945. The second installment “Mortain to Market-Garden” was posted a couple of months back. The link to that article is … Continue reading →
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The Battle that Wasn’t Necessary: Kursk 1943
The Battle of Kursk was the climactic battle on the Eastern Front from which the Germans never recovered. It was a battle that should not have been fought, at least at the time that it was fought. It was high … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 1st ss panzer leibstandarte, 1st tank army, 2nd Panzer Army, 2nd ss das reich, 3rd ss totenkopf, 4th Panzer Army, 5th tank army, adolf hitler, Albert Speer, alfred jodl, allan millett, allied air offensive, Army detachment Kempf, balkans, david glantz, donetz basin, erich von manstein, Field Marshal Model, field marshal von kluge, general eberhard rauss, general heinz guderian, general herman hoth, general kurt zeitzler, german 9th Army, german axis allies, italian front, Kharkov, kursk, Kursk salient, Lieutenant General Katukov, Manstein’s counter-stroke, marshal Rokossovsky, marshal Vatutin, marshal victor konev, mius line, mussolini, OKH, OKW, operation zitadelle, orel bulge, panther tanks, panzer division gross deutschland, panzer Ferdinand, Prokhorovka station, red army, STAVKA, tiger tanks, wilhem keitel, williamson murray
Operation “Dachs” My First Foray into the Genre “Alternative History”
For a change of pace I have pulled up something that one of my professors allowed me to do in my Military History Masters Program. This was my first foray into historical fiction, or as it is known sometimes as … Continue reading →
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Tagged as adolf hitler, Albert Speer, alfred jodl, alternative history, Army Group Center, Avery Dulles, Colonel Henning Von Trescow, Count Bernadotte, dnieper river, erich von manstein, erwin rommel, Fallschirmjaeger, field marshal albert kesselring, Field Marshal Model, field marshal von kluge, Field Marshal Von Richthofen, Field Marshal Von Rundstedt, franklin roosevelt, fw-200 condor, general heinz guderian, general herman hoth, General Kurt Wolfe, general kurt zeitzler, general ludwig beck, german 9th Army, GESTAPO, heinrich himmler, herman goering, Herman Goering Panzer Division, hungary, Jagdpanzer, JG-53, josef stalin, Joseph Goebbels, ju-87 stuka, karl donitz, keiser wilhelm, Kharkov, kiev, kursk, Kursk salient, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe Field Divisions, Luneburg, ME-109, ME-262, nspector General of Panzer Troops, OB West, OKH, OKW, operation zitadelle, orel, panzer V pather, panzer VI tiger, poland, red army, romania, Rudolf Diels, smolensk, soviet union, stalingrad, Sturmgeschutzen, the balkans, Truppenführung, Waffen SS, Walter Schellenberg, wilhem keitel, winston churchill, Zossen
