What transpired in Spain in 1936-37 was not only a civil war but a social revolution.

On January 20, 1942, a group of Nazi leaders met to coordinate a continent-wide genocide.

In 1945, members of the American "Deer Team," part of the OSS, worked with Vietnamese guerrilla fighters to throw Japanese troops out of Indochina. As the war ended, the people of Vietnam looked to the United States to support their dreams of independence.

What happened in Dresden in February 1945 was apocalyptic.

As the anniversaries of Operations Barbarossa and Bagration approach, it is an opportune time to reexamine the immeasurably brutal war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.