The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of Nazi ideology. Only in ...

Germany today is one of the most admired countries in Europe and around the world. Nevertheless, it isn’t far from anyone’s ...

In June, delegates from 32 countries met at the Palace of Versailles near Paris to make peace after World War One - the peace they hoped would ‘end all wars’. No Germans were invited to the ...

when tens of thousands of people in Netherlands died during a Nazi blockade at the end of World War II. The book blends real events - including those experienced by Jansma's family - with fiction.

2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate Sept. 3 as the victory day over Japan. Aug. 15, 1945, is simply the day when Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor ...

By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... Halsey’s would witness the end of that chapter in Japan’s history. As ...

Next year marks the 80 th anniversary of the end of World War II and it’s no surprise networks and distributors are gathering the troops to commemorate. With war spreading in the Middle East and ...

Investigators and engineers use the latest technological resources to hunt for buried treasure in the Philippines, rumoured to have been hidden there at the end of World War II by General Tomoyuki ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Cold War nuclear bunker up for sale - but there's only space for three ...