To commemorate the anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, we sat down with his biographer, Nigel Hamilton, PhD.

How the sheer raw power of the Allies overwhelmed the Germans.

The Freikorps were nothing if not the shock troops, the advance guard, of the Third Reich.

The Allied capture of Rome in June 1944 marked the fall of the first Axis capital but was ultimately overshadowed by the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Victory gardens became (and remain) an iconic image of life on the Home Front during World War II.