World War II Chapters

With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.

Without food or supplies soldiers on Bataan cannot resist Japanese advances. They are angry that MacArthur left and know that surrender is near.

Operation Uranus is Russia's plan to take back Stalingrad and force a German retreat.

Hitler mistakenly assumes that the Russians cannot mount a counterattack.

Oswiecim, Poland is the location of Auschwitz because the Polish army is already there.

Mussolini begins Fascism in Italy after WWI; Hitler uses Mussolini's propaganda ideas to influence German youth.

Discussions remain over how much the US military should have known prior to the Pearl Harbor attack; there are accusations of "miscalculations and blu...

Philip Johnston believes Navajos can create an unbreakable code during WWII using their unwritten language.

Photographic proof of the Holocaust exists, despite some who say it never happened.

Since Bonhoeffer's death, German churches have had to explain why they did not speak out against Hitler.

As scholars try to understand why organized churches did little to resist Hitler and his Third Reich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young Lutheran pastor, ...

Since Bonhoeffer's death, German churches have had to explain why they did not speak out against Hitler.

While waiting for Stalin to arrive, President Truman writes of the devastation in Berlin.

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