This extended video offers a sweeping look at the Second World War across all major theatres. From the Blitzkrieg in Europe ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

When Nazi Germany successfully conquered all of northern Europe and then France in the late spring of 1940, many people in the US as elsewhere were taken by ominous surprise. Germany had failed in the ...

What was the Second World War about? According to Allied leaders, that wasn’t a hard question. “This is a fight between a free world and a slave world,” U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace explained. It ...

The de Havilland Mosquito was the “Wooden Wonder”—outrageously fast, and formidable. But it wasn’t the only aircraft ...

"World War II in HD" in available on the History Channel. (Wikimedia Commons) May is military appreciation month — a time to reflect with gratitude on the men and women who have served this country.

WHY ANOTHER single-volume history of the second world war? Richard Overy has himself written more than 20 books covering different aspects of the conflict and the global crisis of the first half of ...

He flew bombers during the Second World War over Europe, survived four crashes that earned the nickname “Crash,” and lived to ...

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World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, and is a topic that is popular in the media. The primary reasons for this are, of course, the scale of it, and the fact that there was a ...