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Who wrote Lee’s lost orders? Scholars have long asserted that Col. Robert H. Chilton played a pivotal role in drafting and distributing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 near Frederick, Maryland, on September 9, 1862. One copy, addressed to Maj. Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill and outlining the Confederate plan to attack the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry, fell into the hands of Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan on September 13. This intelligence prompted McClellan to swiftly strike Lee’s army at South Mountain. But is this supported by the evidence?

Alexander Rossino’s...

It was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare. Hitler's Polish campaign unleashed a blitzkrieg in which SS troops, police squads, and the army itself waged an ethnic war of unprecedented brutality. Tens of thousands of Poles--roughly 80 percent of whom were Christian--were summarily executed in acts of collective punishment. After six weeks, a country was crushed and the world was at war.

Usually given short shrift in most histories of World War II, the invasion of Poland was more than a series of opening salvos; it was a testing ground for...