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Inside the latest History of War magazine: Why was Patton feared by both his allies and enemies alike?

General Patton was angered and revolted by what he saw at the Nazi concentration camp.  Here's What You Need to Remember: American officers tried to determine the exact number of persons who died during Buchenwald’s nearly eight years of operation, but it was no easy task. The blue arrows on Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.’s Third Army situation maps in his mobile headquarters trailer all pointed eastward. From the vicinity of Frankfurt-am-Main, Patton’s three corps—Troy Middleton’s VIII, Manton Eddy’s XII, and Maj. Gen. Walton H. Walker’s XX—were plunging side by side over...

American railroad workers in specially formed units labored to keep men and matériel rolling forward after D-Day. Here's What You Need to Know: Combat engineers and railway workers recorded a monumental achievement in the summer of 1944. Historian Christian Wolmar concludes that the two world wars could not have been fought to such devastation without military railways, in his book Engines of War. In wars, from the Crimean to the arrival of the jet engine, railways were a dominant technology. Consequently, the military that best employed its railways to transfer fresh troops and supplies to...