TOKYO — Just 19 years after devastating defeat in World War II, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics showcased the reemergence of an innovative country that was showing off bullet trains, miniature ...
If you lived in Britain at the height of the war against Germany, squadrons of Luftwaffe bombers circling the sky were part of the terror of day-to-day life. Britain suffered ...
One of the most striking eyewitness testimonies from this extraordinary outburst of militarised violence – in which some five million people were killed in 200 days – comes from German soldier ...
007 had it quite good. One of Britain’s most important historic structures, the palatial Old War Office in London where James Bond was dreamed up by Ian Fleming and various ...
TOKYO — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, ...
President Biden seemed to have forgotten about the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe that turned the tide against Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden did ...
David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz in World War II died on Saturday. He was 98. The former soldier died at a Munich hospital, according ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced ...
Charles Shay was the only veteran at a ceremony in Carentan, where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, when the small French town marked the 77th anniversary of ...
Fayard were so keen to emphasise the edition’s scholarly nature that Hitler’s name does not even appear on the tome’s bare, white cover. Nor is it titled Mein Kampf: The book ...
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