This essay offers some ways of thinking about how to make sense of the complicated post-war moment through the case of Yugoslavia.

How Soviet occupation policy in Austria took shape warrants more attention.

The Polish Home Army’s plan to launch a series of uprisings throughout Poland during the Soviet Union’s summer offensive in 1944 had important consequences for how the Warsaw Uprising unfolded.

Be careful about superlatives when you’re discussing military history, until you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa.

During the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) brutally murdered between 10,000 and 40,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine over the course of eight days, which sparked waves of ethnic violence following the German occupation of the region.

Known to her enemies as “Lady Death,” Lyudmila Pavlichenko is recognized as the most successful female sniper in history with a total of 309 confirmed kills.

Hitler and his staff kept driving German troops onward to Moscow to impel Imperial Japan to enter the war.

We look back at some of the best author events at The National WWII Museum.

75 years ago Soviet soldiers captured Vienna after bitter street combat.

The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's masterpiece of women in the Soviet Great Patriotic War.

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Capture of Warsaw by Soviet forces, we reached out to Alexandra Richie, D.Phil, to shed light on this event.

Warsaw was left devastated and in ruins when the Germans retreated and the Red Army arrived 75 years ago.