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. 

Eleven months after witnessing the attack on Pearl Harbor, Harold Ward stood watch aboard the USS San Francisco as the heavy cruiser "steamed right into a mess." 

A personal quest for a grandfather's WWII service history inspired a new Museum resource for families researching a veteran. 

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.