Masterly . . . a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of wasted sacrifice. Vince Rinehart, " The Washington Post"
The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the U.S. campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of World War II s western theater. In January 1944, about six months before D-Day, an Allied force of thirty-six thousand soldiers launched one of the first attacks on continental Europe at Anzio, a small coastal city thirty miles south of Rome. The assault was conceived as...

A Fox Terriers memoirs of his 250 mile walkies on the Swiss Alpine Pass Route, a spectacular 250 mile traverse of the Swiss Alps that includes 58,000ft of ascent.

A Fox Terriers memoirs of his 250 mile walkies on the Swiss Alpine Pass Route, a spectacular 250 mile traverse of the Swiss Alps that includes 58,000ft of ascent.

On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named "Operation Citadel," the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well-informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most...