World War II

PARTNERS IN CRIME

HEN HITLER CAME TO POWER in 1933, Germanyits military strictly limited by the Treaty of Versailles—had a 100,000-man army and a few dozen tanks and combat aircraft that had been covertly produced and hidden in Soviet Russia. Six years later, the Wehrmacht had over three million men, 4,000 planes, and nearly 3,500 tanks. written by Ian Ona Johnson, a military history professor at the University of Notre Dame,

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from World War II

World War II1 min read
Moving On Up
Norman Lear was in his third semester at Boston’s Emerson College when he heard about the Pearl Harbor attack. He decided to enlist, but his parents talked him out of it. Finally he joined the Army Air Forces without telling them. He wanted to be a p
World War II3 min read
Lightning Strikes
IF YOU ASK ME, World War II’s coolest airplane is the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. It looks like something a kid might have doodled in a notebook while daydreaming in class. I became enthralled with the airplane in junior high when I read a book by Marti
World War II2 min read
From The Pen Of Dr. Seuss
He was not yet the iconic children’s book author we all know and love—he wouldn’t become that until after The Cat in the Hat became a bestseller in 1957—but Theodor Seuss Geisel made his voice heard in the months before the United States entered Worl

Related