At the start of All Creatures Great and Small Season 6, Darrowby erupts in celebration as Victory in Europe (VE) Day marks Nazi Germany’s surrender. The series captures the joy of the moment, but in ...

World War II produced some of the most consequential military leaders in modern history. Commanders on both sides were suddenly ...

What was the Second World War about? According to Allied leaders, that wasn’t a hard question. “This is a fight between a free world and a slave world,” U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace explained. It ...

I have a History test on WW2 (Pearl Harbour onwards) and while I'm confident in what I've read, our teacher is a fan of bulk pages readings and I want to know if anyone can suggest a book or site that ...

MacKenzie, S. P. "The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II." The Journal of Modern History 66, no. 3 (1994): 487-520. McDonough, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied ...

During World War II, nations around the world quickly innovated in a number of technological areas, though few matched the gains in aircraft production. The conflict saw the widespread use of heavy ...

The men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops created elaborate illusions featuring inflatable tanks, jeeps and artillery. Courtesy of the National WWII Museum Bernie Bluestein was 19 years old when ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.