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. 

On November 3, 1943, Adolf Hitler called for a fundamental reorientation of German strategy to strengthen the west in preparation for an Anglo-American landing. 

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Submarine Experience: Part Two.

A sweeping view of World War II opens with the war's impact on one California family.  

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Submarine Experience: Part One. 

The first American war correspondent to visit Nagasaki after the atomic bomb witnesses the randomness of fate. 

Japan and the postwar occupation.

Traces of Hitler’s favorite architect, Albert Speer, spotted on the streets of Berlin.

Ordinary Germans debate Hitler and a deal with the devil in 1938.

Newlyweds in Russia pay homage to their WWII history.

A German looks back at his hometown as Hitler's Reich comes to power.

From gas rationing to gas crisis!