It’s no accident that the publisher of this book saw fit to put “Author of ’Pippi Longstocking’” after Astrid Lindgren’s name, for that classic children’s book is not merely the chief, but perhaps the ...

What on earth were the German people thinking during World War II? How could they support such a dreadful war of aggression? How could they tolerate — or actively support — the extermination of Jews ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

Hastings continues a recent substantial body of general audience writing on WWII (Armageddon; Retribution,) in this equally well-researched and well-presented account focusing on the conflict’s human ...

Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940 ; Hitler's ideology and strategy ; The monstrous scheme : a Greater Germanic empire ; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The eve of war. The ...

An excellent graphic treatment of naval operations during the Second World War. Originally published by Pen & Sword in Britain, War At Sea devotes a "chapter" to naval operations during each year of ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1950-01-01/history-fiji-military-forces-1939-1945https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule ...

French prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich observe a minute's silence after its liberation in 1945 — Eric Schwab Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death ...

Making wide use of the Nuremberg documents, the author reconstructs a part of the story of how the belligerents negotiated with each other during the war. Loading ...

THE family of a Second World War veteran who died earlier this month aged 99, have paid tribute to him, calling him the ‘loveliest, ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention. Many of the ghastly pictures ...