A sweeping view of World War II opens with the war's impact on one California family.  

"In my own mind, Winds was, and has remained, the pedestal, Remembrance the memorial.”

A visit to Rommel's Normandy headquarters, which was empty of its master on D-Day.  

Does World War II have a War and Peace? Novels by Herman Wouk and Vasily Grossman plunge deep into the darkest history of the 20th century. 

Looking deep into the past at the German Military Cemetery at La Cambe.

The WWII generation came of age in an era when popular literature condemned the futility of war. In Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose explored the cultural context from which those men and women emerged to do what had to be done. 

A haunting visit to Mulberry "B" on Gold beach.

A WWII memorial in Volgograd stands as a testament to memory, innocence, and the evil of war.

Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.

The  traveling exhibit tells the story of how World War II became the major catalyst in the 20th century for African Americans seeking change in their fortunes, both on the Home Front and in the American military.