The Brandenburgers were among Nazi Germany’s most secretive and unconventional units - elite commandos trained to infiltrate enemy territory disguised as civilians or Allied soldiers before major ...

Life as they knew it was snatched away. The Nazis took all: their families, homes, and countries. In the end, all they had left were their names. Then they gave up their birth names to be part of the ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of America’s entry into World War II. As one of our most studied conflicts, it often feels as if all the stories about it have now been told. This is not the case.

The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit — but whose story has gone untold until now. June 1942. The shadow of the ...

Despite the many special-ops chronicles of recent""walk-overs"" in the Middle East, the Vietnam war is still the mythic heartland of great commando literature. A case in point is this gripping memoir ...

In June of 1942, amid Third Reich victories everywhere, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff formed an unusual plan. They would shape a new commando unit made up of German and Austrian Jewish ...

Nearly everyone at U.S. central command agreed that the sprawling Faw oil-refining and -shipping facility on Iraq’s southeastern coast was a must-seize first-night target in the war on Baghdad–almost ...

X Troop at Aberdovey, 1943. Peter Masters is in the back row, second from the left; Colin Anson is in the second row from the back, twelfth from the left; Manfred Gans is in the third row from the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only thirty years later did the United States officially acknowledge the battle at the clandestine site. Etchberger would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor in a ...