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. 

Watch a moving performance of "Music from the Victims of World War II." 

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

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.

Ferguson’s short passage has some deep, important lessons and implications for how to think of the world we inhabit.

A new anniversary edition kindles memories of Stephen Ambrose's early research into Easy Company's WWII saga. 

The Royal Flush skidded to a halt with wounded crewmen aboard. Pilot Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal jumped out of his aircraft and headed for a debriefing, asking another officer who didn’t fly that day, “Are they all this rough?”

A visit to Rommel's Normandy headquarters, which was empty of its master on D-Day.  

Looking deep into the past at the German Military Cemetery at La Cambe.

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