World War II Articles

In January of 1943, Warsaw Ghetto inmates began defying their German enemies—and sparked a widespread hunger for resistance.

The shores of Dunkirk and the Korean countryside await...

Take your mind off the current world with riveting true accounts of history's most poignant moments.

Discover the essential account of the men who raised the flags during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Greyhound, written by and starring Tom Hanks, is coming this June.

These books examine the burdens of battle, from the Revolutionary War to modern day Iraq.

A treasonous radio personality despised by US forces.

Although outnumbered five-to-one, this battalion held their ground and killed more than 4,000 opposing German soldiers.

The extraordinary flier's strange tale fascinates, decades later.

Historian Walter Lord recounts the bombing of major U.S. battleships and the heroics of the men on board.

While their men fought on the front lines, women fought their own battle at home and in the workforce—and helped bring the Allied Powers to victory.

20 winners will receive a copy of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.

Even a 300,000 Franc bounty couldn't bring him down.

Court-martialed after the sinking of the cruiser, Captain McVay's innocence was proven by Hunter Scott in 1996.

December 7 may be a date which will live in infamy, but in June 1942, the tides turned.

Some of our best films draw inspiration from the global conflict.

Mary Roberts, Elaine Roe, Virginia Rourke, and Ellen Ainsworth continued to save lives even as mortar shells rained down around them.

One Austrian Jew saved untold planes and crew members with his survivorship bias theory.

The 872-day siege by German forces failed to capture Leningrad, but left immense devastation in its wake.

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