Last week, a US national security strategy document signed by the president said European governments “hold unrealistic ...

Eighty-four long years ago this Sunday, the world was forever changed. On that “day of infamy,” as revered former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt so boldly declared it, Japan launched a massive ...

Germany’s Bundestag voted for a bill on Friday that allows the country to move towards conscription, as tensions with Russia spur calls for Europe to gain more independence from the US security ...

It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...

Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 'Shakespeare in Love' and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88.

When the Saturday Evening Post published an offensive antisemitic article in 1942, the furor threatened to sink the magazine. The Post's editor and much of the staff were sacked and a young former ...

The Academy has unveiled its full list of eligible films for the 98th Oscars’ animated, documentary and international feature ...

Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles column appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Vallejo Times-Herald. In mid-1941 the U.S. was five months away from entry into World War II. But a ...

In “The Wounded Generation” and “1942,” the historians David Nasaw and Peter Fritzsche show how civilians struggled with the long tail of the war. By Elizabeth D. Samet Elizabeth D. Samet is the ...

Dive into the lesser-known Battle of Bautzen in "Germany's Last Victory: Against All Odds | World War II." Witness the strategic brilliance and resilience of German forces facing overwhelming odds on ...

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