German generals died in droves in World War II.

Author Keith Lowe examines the legacies of the global conflict that shaped our modern world. 

Hilter's Gotterdammerung: The climactic Battle of Berlin as seen at the Great Patriotic War Museum in Moscow.

Author Eric Kurlander​ offers A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. 

Joseph Stalin was a hangman whose noose could reach across oceans.

On the day Britain declares war, Winston Churchill rises from a London air raid shelter to the admiralty.

Breaching Hitler's Eastern Wall: Crossing the Dnieper River at the Great Patriotic War Museum.

What do you do when things fall apart? 

Legendary broadcaster Edward Murrow’s message to the world on the day Hitler unleashed World War II.

Reflections on the greatest tank battle in history: The Kursk diorama at the Great Patriotic War Museum. 

Can we make a case for Chamberlain's appeasement policy?

As the Nazi invasion of Poland looms, journalist Edward Murrow reports on Britain's stiffening willpower.