Somewhere in Italy last week a German did the best he could. The German was Luftwaffe Field Marshal & General Albert Kesselring, 58, a handsome Bavarian who once was jolly and charming, a soldier and ...
The Western Allies, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, anticipated a swift collapse of Axis Italy with their invasion of Sicily in the spring of 1943. Instead, they slammed into a brutal German ...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had twice been at the top of the Wehrmacht command ladder in the west, went down again last week—and this time probably out. His successor: bulldog-faced Field ...