After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...

In the final months of World War II, Germany no longer fought for victory but out of fear, survival, and the belief that surrender in the east meant death. As Soviet forces closed in, propaganda ...

Foreword by James H. Madison -- Introduction -- PART I. THE WAR : A CHRONOLOGICAL STORY. Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River -- Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment -- Continued ...

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. The war would continue to rage in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania for six years, coming to an end in 1945.

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

A conversation with military historian Max Hastings. How was the ending of World War II in Asia different from the endgame in Europe? We make a mistake when we speak of World War II in the singular; ...