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.
In February of 1945, the military intelligence section of the Southwest Pacific Area of General Headquarters prepared a detailed report on the "Destru...
This factoid of key events, leading up to and beginning on D-Day, adds interesting tidbits of history to the Normandy-invasion story. Click on the im...
This cover image depicts a book written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's twin-sister, Sabine. It shows Sabine with her twin-brother Dietrich. The Engli...
Bookcover image of Stalingrad: The Fateful siege 1942 - 1943, by Anthony Beevor.
This now-declassified cable from the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) to President Harry Truman (who was attending the Potsdam Conference in Germany) ...
TESTIMONY OF FIRST LT. JOSEPH LOCKARD, SIGNAL CORPS, UNITED STATES ARMY (The witness was sworn by the Recorder and advised of his rights under Artic...
STATEMENT OF SERGEANT GEORGE E. ELLIOTT, HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, STATION COMPLEMENT; CAMP LEE, VA. (The witness was sworn by the Recorder and advised ...
Bookcover image of The Great Raid, by William B. Breuer.
DVD boxcover image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives video.
This book, which contains many Japanese primary-source materials, was edited by the co-authors of At Dawn We Slept (with the late Gordon Prange). ...
Image of the German ship Steuben, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Russian submarine S-13 on February 9, 1945.
This timeline, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, identifies the dates for key events leading up to Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "J...
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