The word “stormtrooper” has a funny reputation. It conjures memories of brownshirted Nazi thugs terrorizing Jews, or images of Darth Vader’s white-armored henchmen in Star Wars. But in 1918, ...
During the Battle of Caporetto in late 1917 during World War I, a young German officer by the name of Erwin Rommel led an elite team of around 100 Stormtroopers that captured around 9,000 Italian ...