The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, takes a comprehensive look a the global conflict. It's a must-visit for ...

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This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 146. In May 1939, the US Senate debated a proposal to purchase the territory of Greenland from Denmark. The War Department was consulted, but ...

Rishi Sharma is on a race. Specifically, he is on a race against time. Every day, about 430 American World War II Veterans die, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Every day, Sharma tries ...

His 1998 epic war film, Saving Private Ryan, is set in 1944 in Normandy during the Second World War and follows a group of soldiers on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (played by Matt ...

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 ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are that ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. Sign up for The War Room. Richard Cockett, our news editor, ...

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 ...