Field Notes Blog
The Battle of the Bulge: Germany's Last Offensive in the West
On December 16, 1944, Germany launched its final major offensive on the Western Front — a massive armored assault through the Ardennes forest of Belgium and Luxembourg. The Battle of the Bulge beca...
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World War I and World War II: What the Maps Tell Us
The Somme's trench maps and Iwo Jima's assault charts are not the same kind of map. What the cartographic record of each world war reveals — and why it matters.
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