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.
This image depicts Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union during World War II, and includes the way his name appears in Russian.
Had D-Day occurred later in the month of June, 1944, things would have gone badly for the Allies. A massive gale swept through Normandy between the 19...
Georgi Zelma (1906-1984) was born in the town of Tashkent in Uzbekistan (which, for a time, was one of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union).
The title of this iconic photo, from the Stroop Report, visually expresses the terror of war.
The Five Sullivan Brothers, serving with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during WWII, all lost their lives when a Japanese torpedo struck their s...
During the first part of 1941, Yoshikawa had arrived in Hawaii. Tasked with helping pilots (who had never been to Pearl Harbor) find their individual...
Josef Terboven, a German, and Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian, take control in Norway after the German invasion in April of 1940.
The coast of Normandy, at the area of Omaha Beach, is not exactly perfect for landing a large-scale invasion force.
Imagining what it would be like to have alter-ego boys, both aged 9, living on opposite sides of the Auschwitz fence, John Boyne creates a sobering st...
After a six-month period of relative quiet, which some journalists called a "phony war," Hitler sent his troops to invade, then occupy, Norway in Apri...
This image depicts "The Green Hornet" - a B-24 used in the Pacific theater during WWII.
On September 1, 1941, German Jews received the police directive that all Jews above the age of six to wear a yellow star.
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