#world-war-ii

Why Did Adolf Hitler Kill Approximately Six Million Jews? The History of the Holocaust Explained

History is full of events that have changed the world. Some brought hope and progress, while others brought pain and destruction. Among the…

Remembering the Events Leading to the Battle of Stalingrad

How the Battle of Stalingrad Began in July 1945

When War Becomes Childhood

Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood and the Psychology of Adapting to Trauma

The Banks That Never Changed Sides: JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Three World Wars

Arms manufacturers get the historical scrutiny. Krupp, Rheinmetall, I.G. Farben, their names carry the weight of what they built and who…

Myrtle the Parachick

In 1944, a chicken named Myrtle completed six training jumps with the British 1st Airborne Division, earned her parachute wings, and went…

George S. Patton: The General War Couldn’t Ignore

The armored commander who broke enemy lines, divided Allied command, and left one of World War II’s most complicated legacies.

The Röchling Parallel: Same Crimes, Same Sentence, Same Rehabilitation

On 23 June 1956, the Röchling family took over the majority of shares in Rheinmetall-Borsig AG from the Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt, then…

Foo Fighters: A Brief History of a Strange Flying Phenomenon

During World War II, fighter pilots and bombardiers reported strange red balls of light, nicknamed “foo fighters” flying alongside them in…

Winston Churchill didn’t lead the campaign against appeasement

You may have the impression that Winston Churchill stood alone in warning England of the rising Nazi menace. Many histories of the period…

The Niʻihau Incident: The Untold Pearl Harbor Story That Changed American History

On December 7, 1941, a lone Japanese pilot crash-landed on a remote Hawaiian island. What happened next would shape the fate of over…

The Replacement

Chapter 1-Our River Ambush — January 1 to February 21, 1945-Part A

“Race To Resurrection: A WWII Historical Thriller”

Biblio File column

Factual Fictions: ‘Pressure’: How a Team of Weathermen Fought the Nazis

A fine drama about one of the most crucial decisions of World War II captures the outline of events while rearranging the details.

The Army Tested Mustard Gas on Black Soldiers to Study Their Skin

After the burns came doctors, forms, and years of being doubted.

The Untold Story Behind the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Can ‘Ordinary’ Friendships Match the Intensity of Those Made in Wartime?

A chance encounter left me wondering and hoping for more

The First of the Few (1942): What Was the True Story Behind the Spitfire Film?

The wartime biopic that gave Britain its most iconic fighter plane — and a director who never came home.

What Am I Gonna Do On Sundays?

Can Sundays ever feel the same again?

How the Gremlin Ruled the Sky

Before the 80s movies, countless TV, and cartoon appearance, gremlins were taken seriously by pilots. They may be things of myth and…

THE ARITHMETIC OF AN EPITHET

Serbian King Milutin built and restored 42 churches and monasteries — Gračanica, the Bogorodica Ljeviška, Banjska, Hilandar — and that’s…

World at War: INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY

WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND FOURTH

How Private Snafu Cartoons Won WWII with Laughs and Propaganda (Complete 1943–1945 Collection)

You wouldn’t expect a clumsy, cigar-chomping private to win a world war. But between 1943 and 1945, that’s exactly what happened.

Anne Frank’s Diary is First Published

Personal journal of young girl becomes international bestseller

The Thoughts of One of Many

When I first learned about Anne Frank, I think I was in middle school; 7th grade maybe. History was never my favorite subject however…

The Farmer’s Boy

Draft- Short Story: Fiction

The Most Brutal Nazi

The Life of Bronislav Kaminski

Navies in the Arctic: Warships of the Battle of North Cape

Remembering the Warships in World War II’s Battle of the North Cape

The Geese That Never Cackled: How a Houseful of Chess Champions and Debutantes Broke Hitler’s…

In the summer of 1938, a man calling himself the leader of “Captain Ridley’s shooting party” walked the grounds of a fading Victorian…

Remembering the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944

The Most Decisive Aircraft Carrier Clash of World War II

Hitler’s Terrible, No Good, Bad Day in Court

And the Jewish lawyer who exposed him

The Rest of the Story 6

Ed was born in Taylorville, a small town in central Illinois, in 1912. Some of his earliest memories were of scavenging electronic…

Ambush in the Aegean: The Warships at the Battle of Cape Matapan

Remembering the Warships at World War II’s Battle of Cape Matapan

What the Holocaust Teaches Us About Freedom, Democracy, and Our Founding Principles

Commemorating America 250

Why Ukraine Struggles to Face Its Collaborative Past with the Nazis

It’s a hard truth, but ignoring messy history doesn’t make a nation stronger. It just leaves old wounds festering.

Beyond the Secret Annex: How Anne Frank Transformed Pain into Timeless Literature

How a thirteen-year-old girl trapped by war fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer and gave humanity one of its most powerful voices.

The Replacement

Post War novel-Description and Dedication

Jean Ferrat -Nuit et brouillard

Russia’s Night Witches

Female pilots played a significant role in the Soviet Union’s defeat of Germany’s ill-conceived invasion

June 12: The Red-and-White Checkered Book: The Day Anne Frank Received Her Diary

On the morning of June 12, 1942, a young Jewish girl woke up early in her family’s apartment on Merwedeplein in Amsterdam. It was her 13th…

Everyone Is Watching the American Century.

American postwar power was built, in significant part, by absorbing the defeated enemy’s scientific and intelligence machine, with the…

The Nisei Sisters: WWII’s Forgotten Scandal

Three Japanese internees who helped two German POWs escape.

The Peculiar Truth about the WWII Bagpiper

Mad Jack Churchill.

Spielberg Celebration: ‘Band of Brothers’ And The Human Side Of War

On Spielberg and Hanks’ small-screen companion piece to Saving Private Ryan

The necessary dictator

In defence of Comrade Stalin

The Laconia Incident: The WWII Rescue That Changed Submarine Warfare

When a German U-boat tried to save enemy survivors, an American bomber attacked. The fallout reshaped the war at sea.

There were five separate beach landing sites on D-Day, codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and…

The most strongly defended of the beaches was Omaha, which also had the most difficult terrain. Over 2,400 American soldiers were killed or…

June 6, 1944

June 6, 1944,

D-Day: The Invasion That Opened Europe

How the Normandy landings became the largest seaborne invasion in history

Spielberg Celebration: ‘1941'

If you’re gonna fail, fail big

What should Russia’s wounded veterans expect from their country in return for their sacrifices?

A lesson from 1945 for the men coming home from Ukraine.