A passage from William Shirer's memoir of The Nightmare Years bears witness to the stark brutality of 1940 Europe. 

The battle that defined for the American Army the tough realities of what war with the German army truly meant.

Honoring a resistance icon who fought the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. 

As the "Hinge of Fate" was turning across the globe, Operation Torch became the US military's first step toward defeat of Nazi Germany in Europe.

With a glimpse of Stalin's grave in Red Square, a brutal legacy rewinds. 

A French writer fleeing Paris in June 1940 has a nervous first encounter with the enemy. 

In a cemetery outside Warsaw, Marxist-Leninist theory meets the course of history. 

Leon Werth captures the chaos and uncertainty that preceded the Nazis into Paris. 

George Kennan is most known for his diplomatic work following World War II, as the Soviet Union imposed an Iron Curtain on the states of Eastern Europe and Cold War tensions began. But Kennan's writings during World War II give the eerie account of a region on the precipice of Nazi conquest.

Marking the centennial of the Russian Revolution with a photographic flashback to Red Square.