Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.


Military Historian - Author - Consultant


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For more than forty years, I have researched military history, leadership, World War II, Pennsylvania history, and the individuals whose decisions shaped history. My work has appeared in World Book Encyclopedia, World War II History, World War II Quarterly, Army Aviation, Pennsylvania Guardians, and other publications. The following collection represents selected research articles, published essays, and historical studies spanning WWI history through modern conflict.

FEATURED RESEARCH

The 28th Infantry Division and the Battle of the Bulge:
Doctoral research and continuing studies of Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division.

World War II Military Operations:
European and Pacific campaigns, strategy, leadership, and battlefield analysis.

The Holocaust:
Nazi ideology, genocide, resistance, and historical interpretation.

Military Leadership & Strategy:
Hitler, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Rommel, Bismarck, and strategic thought.



DOCTORIAL DISSERTATION



We Fought for the Right Reasons and God Was on Our Side


A study of combat, faith, and perseverance during the Battle of the Bulge.




WORLD WAR I



Beginnings of War


Nationalism in Europe


Poison Gas


Policy and Strategy


Why Germans Joined the Military




WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA



Bataan Death March


Battle of the Bulge


D-Day


Normandy


Midway


Coral Sea


Flying Fortress


Operation Market

Garden


Purple

Heart Battalion


Gestapo


SS


Hitler Youth


Guy Gabaldon


Battle of Dunkirk


Red Ball Express


Malmédy Massacre



MAGAZINE ARTICLES



World War II History


The Bloody Bucket at Colmar


Italy's North African Misadventure


World War II Quarterly


Against All Odds


The Road to Nanking


Pennsylvania Guardians


Triangle of Courage


Calm Under Fire


Doughboys, Dog Faces and Darned Good


Above and Beyond the Skies of Iraq


Weird and Wonderful Tales of Deployment




WORLD
WAR II



European Theater


Breakout From the Hedgerows


German Army after Kursk


Initial German Invasion of Russia


Hitler's Experience in Vienna


Hitler's Leadership Style


Soviet Formula for Success


Hitler Youth


​Pacific Theater


FDR and the Road to Pearl Harbor


Reasons for the Rape of Nanking


Deniers of Japanese Genocide


The Battle of Surigao Strait

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HOLOCAUST STUDIES



Nazi Germany


Hitler's Rise to Power


​Nuremberg Laws & the Wannsee Conference


Versailles


Genocide


Final Solution


Concentration Camps


Holocaust Under the Cover of War


​Einsatzgruppen



Jewish Resistance


Why the Holocaust Was Possible


What Ordinary Germans Knew


Mischlinge


Lack of Jewish Resistance



MILITARY LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY



​Sun Tzu Compared to Clausewitz


Sun Tzu & Clausewitz Applied to War at Sea


German Strategy 1918–1945


Rommel's Afrika Korps


America's Paradoxical Trinity


Air Power and Technology


Manifest Destiny


Young Turks Revolution


Chinese Morality


Radical Islam in Uzbekistan



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