Historian Richard Frank explores the influence of China and the Soviet Union in the Japanese decision to attack American territories in December 1941.

An Austrian Jew serving in the US military, Irving Becker endured discrimination from both ally and foe during World War II. He ended up a crucial part of one of the most elite Allied forces ever assembled.

Walking the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, imagining the unlived lives of the D-Day dead.

In June 2004, while spending a weekend in Munich away from dissertation research at the Austrian National Library, I boarded a train in the city’s Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) for a short trip.

In the grisly battle for European air supremacy, the Luftwaffe proved a deadly foe to Allied bombers.