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. 

A haunting visit to Mulberry "B" on Gold beach.

A WWII memorial in Volgograd stands as a testament to memory, innocence, and the evil of war.

Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.

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

Despite the lack of proper diet and medical supplies, the proliferation of tropical disease, constant enemy bombardments, and the threat of being overrun by a fanatical enemy, American forces held on to “The Island of Death.”