This article is part 2 in a special series on World War II battlefields by ACG consulting historian and Advisory Board member, Carlo D’Este.

Historian and author Carlo D’Este offers his impressions of his recent trip to the Mediterranean where he visited a number of World War II battlefields.

Author and historian Carlo D’Este examines the largely unnoticed and undocumented Italian Campaign of World War II, as well as the contributions of the Italian Army of both sides of the war.

Acclaimed author and historian Carlo D’Este highlights the importance of Memorial Day and the sacrifices made by American soldiers during the D-Day invasion.

Historian Carlo D’Este highlights the Kemper Lecture at the National Churchill Museum where he discussed the military life of Winston Churchill.

Author and historian Carlo D’Este examines the extraordinary life of Retired Master Sergeant and Penobscot Indian Charles Norman Shay who landed on D-Day with the 1st Infantry Division.

Armchair General magazine will be actively participating in the 15th annual William E. Colby Military Writers’ Symposium at Norwich University.

Author and Armchair General magazine consulting historian Carlo D’Este looks back on the life of his father as a soldier fighting on World War I’s eastern front.

Historian and Armchair General Advisory Board Member Carlo D’Este reflects on the significant events of 2009 including the economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “going green.”

Historian and Author Carlo D’Este looks back on the life of his friend Harry Brack, a Battle of Britain/London Blitz survivor, for Armchair General.

Historian and Armchair General Advisory Board Member Carlo D’Este examines Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s “Broad Front” Strategy sixty years after World War II.

Armchair General Consulting Historian Carlo D’Este looks back on the failure of Operation Market Garden in September, 1944 during World War II.

Carlo D’Este looks back on the impact of World War I.

Noted historian and ArmchairGeneral Advisory Board member Carlo D’Este examines the true meaning of the Fourth of July.

June 6, 2009 will mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when the eyes of the world were focused on a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. It is hard for those living in freedom today to imagine just what the news of the Allied landings really meant.

Irena Sendler (Irena Sendlerowa in Polish) saved more Jews from the Nazis than Oskar Schindler did, yet she remained largely unknown outside her native Poland until recently. Despite repeated torture, she never betrayed her compatriots.