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 this image we see General Douglas MacArthur returning to the Philippines.
During its heyday, and at the height of its production, the Manhattan Project - America's code-named effort to build a nuclear bomb - employed around ...
This image depicts the book-cover of Man is Wolf to Man, an important work on surviving the GULAG by Janus Bardach.
What was Manchukuo? The answer to that question is: Manchukuo was actually Manchuria - a province of China - before the Japanese army invaded, then oc...
Iceland is Europe's second-largest island. It is located between the North Atlantic and the Greenland Sea.
Margaret Utinsky, an American nurse whose efforts greatly aided the Cabanatuan prisoners, lost her husband to the prison camp's horrifying conditions....
This image depicts Marian Rejewski, one of the Poles whose work on examining - and understanding - the Enigma machine greatly helped the Allies during...
This image depicts Marian Rejewski, one of the Poles whose work on examining - and understanding - the Enigma machine greatly helped the Allies during...
Before he was executed by the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was engage to marry Maria von Wedemeyer.
According to Sarah Farmer, in her 1999 book "Martyred Village - Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane," tragic events took place as the...
Did people around the world know what the Nazis were doing in Poland before the end of the war? In 1942, the Polish government-in-exile sent a pamphle...
On the fourth Monday of May, Americans honor those who have died for their country. Hear a bugler playing "Taps," and learn about the history of this ...
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