Axis defenses also may have been duped by a deception (Operation Mincemeat) involving the Allies use of a dead body, disguised as a British officer, deliberately placed off the Spanish coast where ...

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Ask a dozen military historians to name the single most pivotal battle or campaign of World War II—the one operation that saw the war’s momentum irrevocably swing from the Axis to the Allied powers — ...

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On December 11, 1941, FDR caught a break. Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. This allowed FDR to move ahead with his strategy to attack Germany first while putting a holding action ...

Italy often gets short shrift in popular English-language histories about World War II, with the fighting in the country shrugged off as a sideshow to the Battle of Britain and the invasion of France.

Mussolini entered Italy into World War II on June 1940, hoping to ride on the coattails of Nazi German conquests. Il Duce had grand visions of a Roman Empire reborn, but his clumsy opportunism would ...

Italy received eight antique volumes taken by a G.I. during World War II Monuments Men Foundation brokered the return of the books Foundation hopes to raise awareness of similar antiquities that went ...