The Battle of Manila and the Destruction of the Pearl of the Orient

One family's WWII story as told through correspondence written to a young wife and mother.

By VE-Day, 1.6 million American soldiers stood on German soil. Their first months in the land of their former enemy were marked by a number of surprising observations and interactions.

For five days in 1943, a fashion fad was at the center of racial violence in Los Angeles.

Alan Turing helped the British government pioneer the technology to decrypt Nazi Germany’s secret communications during World War II. In 1952, Alan Turing was forced to endure chemical castration by the same government after being prosecuted for homosexual acts.