I fear German power less than German inaction,” declared Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, in 2011, during Europe’s financial crisis. It was a remarkable statement coming from a Polish ...
By late 1944, Nazi Germany was running out of time, fuel, pilots, and materials as Allied bombers pounded its cities and factories without resistance. In a last-ditch attempt to save the Luftwaffe, ...
BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, carrying the Allies from Normandy beaches to the heart of the ...