January 7, 2023 • 17m
That's what the headlines say as the Red Army continues its advance in Ukraine. There are also plans afoot for a northern offensiv...Read more
January 14, 2023 • 18m
Three Soviet Fronts launch major offensives to try and finally free Leningrad, under siege for nearly two and a half years now. Th...Read more
January 21, 2023 • 18m
The Allies have reached the linchpin of the German defenses in Italy, but a first attack proves disastrous. It does, though, diver...Read more
January 28, 2023 • 19m
Some big news is the Allies amphibious offensive to hit the Germans behind their lines at Anzio in Italy, some other big news is t...Read more
February 4, 2023 • 21m
The Allies begin a new operation in the Pacific this week: assaulting the Marshall Islands. They also make big attacks from their...Read more
February 11, 2023 • 20m
It is crisis mode in the Korsun Pocket this week for the Axis troops surrounded, but they are also losing ground all over the East...Read more
February 18, 2023 • 21m
The Allies bomb the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy, but just to the Northwest it's the Germans attacking them at Anzio this...Read more
February 25, 2023 • 21m
Now that the Americans have seized the Marshall Islands, they can bypass the Japanese base at Truk. This impels Prime Minister Hid...Read more
March 4, 2023 • 18m
The American attacks against the Admiralty Islands are successful, but this causes real tensions between Commanders Douglas MacArt...Read more
March 11, 2023 • 22m
The Soviets launch not one, not two, but three offensives in Ukraine this week, designed to destroy the entire southern wing of th...Read more
March 18, 2023 • 20m
Operation U-Go, Renya Mutaguchi's invasion of India, is in full swing this week, as his men aim at Imphal and Kohima; three Soviet...Read more
March 25, 2023 • 20m
Germany occupies Hungary this week to prevent any possible Hungarian defection from the war, the Soviets continue pushing back the...Read more
April 1, 2023 • 21m
As the Allies prepare to close in on Germany from all fronts, a shake up of the German military leadership can only achieve so much...
April 8, 2023 • 22m
The Soviets are finally going to try and push the Axis out of Sevastopol and the Crimea. They also continue to drive the Axis back...Read more
April 15, 2023 • 22m
Thousands of German soldiers, mostly new teenage recruits, are obeying Hitler's 'Fortress Directive' and are surrounded in Tarnopo...Read more
April 22, 2023 • 19m
Japan Launches Operation Ichigo in China, their largest offensive of the war... or ever, but over in India things are not going we...Read more
April 29, 2023 • 22m
The fighting at Kohima is up close, personal, and vicious, as it is at Imphal. The Allies consolidate their gains at Hollandia, th...Read more
May 6, 2023 • 21m
A command crisis in the Chinese Nationalist Army benefits the Japanese invaders, in Italy, Mark Clark spends his birthday planning...Read more
May 13, 2023 • 22m
The Soviets push the Axis out of the Crimea this week once and for all. In Italy, the Allies launch a major offensive, and the Fr...Read more
May 20, 2023 • 21m
In Italy, the Allies finally overcome Monte Cassino and break through the Gustav Line; in Burma Merrill's Marauders surprise the J...Read more
May 27, 2023 • 19m
After four month, the Allies breakout from their bridgehead at Anzio and meet with the advancing troops heading north after the fa...Read more
June 4, 2023 • 22m
The Allies head north in Italy after the fall of Monte Cassino last week; the Japanese head south in China in a new phase of their...Read more
June 10, 2023 • 24m
The Allies' gigantic, amphibious invasion of France begins and by the end of the week they've carved out a decent sized beachhead....Read more
June 17, 2023 • 22m
Japanese and American navies are heading for a showdown in the Philippine Sea, even as American forces land on Saipan in the Maria...Read more
June 24, 2023 • 24m
The Red Army surges forward in Operation Bagration, a mighty new offensive to destroy German Army Group Centre. Fighting continues...Read more
July 1, 2023 • 25m
Several weeks after the invasion of Normandy began, the Allies finally take a port city there, though the actual harbor has been d...Read more
July 8, 2023 • 24m
Operation Bagration continues, smashing the armies of German Army Group Center and taking ever more territory including the prize ...Read more
July 15, 2023 • 21m
Japanese troops and civilians commit mass suicide rather than surrender to the Americans in the Marianas; in Normandy, Caen has fi...Read more
July 22, 2023 • 24m
This week, Adolf Hitler is blown up and Hideki Tojo steps down. In the Pacific, the Americans land on Guam and prepare for hard fi...Read more
July 29, 2023 • 23m
Operation Cobra is the drop that finally opens the floodgates and the Allies make a breakthrough in Normandy; up in the Baltics th...Read more
August 5, 2023 • 25m
As the Red Army closes in on Warsaw, the Polish Home Army in the city rises up against the German forces. Up in the north the Red ...Read more
August 12, 2023 • 26m
The Germans launch a counter attack to sabotage the Allied positions in France. In the Baltics the Soviet advances grind to a halt...Read more
August 19, 2023 • 24m
This week the Allies invade Southern France, and do so very successfully. They're also successful in the north, closing the Falais...Read more
August 26, 2023 • 25m
Paris is liberated by the Allies, a symbolic act that causes the world to rejoice. Something far more important to the course of t...Read more
September 2, 2023 • 23m
Five years of war and no real end in sight, though the Allies sure seem to have the upper hand at the moment. Romania is coming un...Read more
September 9, 2023 • 25m
This week the USSR invades Bulgaria... who've also declared war on Germany, and who are still at war with the US and Britain, so B...Read more
September 16, 2023 • 25m
The Japanese attacks in Guangxi worry Joe Stilwell enough that he gets FDR to issue an ultimatum to Chiang Kai-Shek, in France the...Read more
September 23, 2023 • 26m
Monty's Operation(s) Market Garden, to drop men deep in the German rear in the Netherlands and secure a series of bridges, begins ...Read more
September 30, 2023 • 26m
This week, Operation Market Garden comes to its unsuccessful conclusion, but there's a lot more going on- the Soviets launch an of...Read more
October 7, 2023 • 28m
The Warsaw Uprising comes to its conclusion, a tragic one for the Poles. In the field in Europe, there are Allied attacks toward ...Read more
October 14, 2023 • 26m
Churchill and Stalin meet at the Moscow Conference and talk about future 'spheres of influence' in the Balkans. They also make pla...Read more
October 21, 2023 • 26m
The Germans engineer a coup in Hungary to keep the Hungarian army in the war, but the Allies have finally entered Germany in force...Read more
October 28, 2023 • 27m
This is it - the big showdown between US and Japanese Navies, and the largest naval battle ever fought in terms of total tonnage. ...Read more
November 4, 2023 • 24m
Josef Stalin wants Rodion Malinovsky to attack Budapest without delay, but this might cause problems for the Soviets. In the west...Read more
November 11, 2023 • 26m
The struggle for Hurtgen forest, one tiny piece at a time, continues. The Allies have, however, secured Walcheren Island, and also...Read more
November 18, 2023 • 27m
Heinrich Himmler wants to build an Army of Soviet POWs, but that has some problems; Patrick Hurley becomes US Ambassador to China,...Read more
November 25, 2023 • 24m
Metz finally falls to Patton's 3rd Army, but boy, it's taken some time. To the south, the Allies also take Belfort and Strasbourg...Read more
December 2, 2023 • 24m
The bulk of the fight for Hürtgen Forest is now over, and today we look at the results. We also look at Soviet plans for their Jan...Read more
December 9, 2023 • 26m
This is a very busy week of the war. In the west, the Americans manage to reach the Roer River in force, but haven't taken any of ...Read more
December 16, 2023 • 27m
Adolf Hitler's Ardennes counteroffensive finally goes off this week, and it does indeed catch the Allies by surprise, and they sus...Read more
December 23, 2023 • 30m
The German Ardennes Offensive, called by the Allies the Battle of the Bulge, is in full swing in Luxembourg and Belgium this week,...Read more
December 30, 2023 • 27m
In the west, the Allies break the siege of Bastogne, but the fight for the Ardennes continues. and British Commander Bernard Mont...Read more