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(Jan. 6, 2023) This week, 80 years ago, the Red Army methodically began the destruction of the Second Hungarian Army, commanded by Col.-Gen. Vitez (Count) Gusztáv Jány.

(April 9, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, five Axis armies, from three countries, attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. On Oct. 28, 1940, the German dictator arrived in Florence, Italy on his personal train, the Amerika. As he alighted from the Amerika, the Italian Duce bounded forward and gleefully exclaimed, in German, “Führer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albania frontier at dawn today!” Twice the Italians had been specifically warned by their Ge...

World War II History: How the Soviets Failed at "Operation Gallop" The combination of Soviet ambition and von Manstein’s brilliant handling of the battle culminated in a bloody defeat for the Red Army. The stage was now set for one of von Manstein’s greatest accomplishments—the recapture of Kharkov—which would take place in mid-March. As Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Sixth Army lay in its death throes in the ruins of Stalingrad, German forces to the west of the city faced their own kind of h...