In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

In early 1944, Soviet offensives sealed a pocket around roughly 60,000 German troops at the Dnieper bend in Ukraine. Manstein ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

August 1944 became Covington County’s deadliest WWII month, as nine local soldiers and airmen—including two Omaha Beach veterans—were lost in fighting from Normandy to the German-Swiss border.

During World War II, Lt. William D. Pharmer Jr., a prisoner of war held in a German camp, asked that his $100 military allotment check ...

Thrasivoulos Marakis grew up hearing stories about the grandfather he was named after but who he never met — about how the ...

The Greek Culture Ministry purchased the archive after a private collector attempted to sell the material online. Athens has ...

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons has never worked.

A new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis offers an expanded view of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's ...

The pigs had been spooked by law enforcement agents combing the woods with bloodhounds in search of three German prisoners ...

My father-in-law, Maj. Robert “Doug” Wood, was a war veteran who flew air lift support missions in Vietnam.  This paper contained an article I had written 15 years ago while working as a sergeant at ...