Apr 13, 201910 minWhen the World Held its Breath: AltonaBy Paul Hynes On the 14th of June, 1941 German commanders amassing their forces on the Soviet border received the message 'Dortmund'. The name of the city of...
Mar 30, 20198 minWhen The World Held Its Breath: First LightningBy Paul Hynes For Germans awaking on the Sunday morning of June 22nd, 1941, the news that their country was at war with the Soviet Union was delivered to the...
Mar 16, 20197 minWhen The World Held Its Breath: Fixed BayonetsBy Paul Hynes As Barbarossa began, Soviet troops at the front were often asleep. When the Germans struck their stocks of ammunition and fuel were low without...
Mar 2, 20196 minWhen The World Held Its Breath: Divide And ConquerBy Paul Hynes "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crumbling down" was Adolf Hitler's reassurance to his followers as h...
Feb 16, 20196 minWhen The World Held Its Breath: Japan Strikes North By Paul Hynes What if Japan had joined Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941? It's a question that's interested many and even puzzled a few ever since before the ...
Feb 2, 201910 min When The World Held Its Breath : The "What Ifs" of Operation Barbarossa By Paul Hynes "The world will hold its breath!" is the reaction Adolf Hitler promised when planning the most ambitious conquest of the war he had inflicted u...
