U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach ...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, she joined the Navy, coinciding with her three brothers' enlistment during World War II. She served as a physical therapist, her military-issued leather bag ...

In February 1949, during a conversation with visiting Soviet Communist leader Anastas Mikoyan at Xibaipo, Mao Zedong highlighted the unique challenges of supply difficulties and ethnic and ...

During his time with the elite airborne unit, Fraser struck up a close and unexpected friendship with Lieutenant Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne – the most famous of all SAS heroes. Their ...

As devastating as that bombing was, the story of the Swansea home front - or how civilians cope during war - is much more diverse. In a new account, author and local historian Bernard Lewis aims ...

It’s already getting a healthy injection of DLC expansions as well, covering each year of WW2 in granular detail and offering scenarios that aren’t always covered in other games set during ...

A World War II film made in the midst of the war, for instance, might serve a propagandist purpose than one made after the war ends, when there’s more room for nuance and complexity, but it also ...

collectionChildren of World War Two In this series of short films modern children meet people who grew up during World War Two to learn about their experiences. WW2: The Holocaust year by year.

1939: Britain declares war on Germany. Audio1939: Britain declares war on Germany 1939: King George VI addresses the nation. Audio1939: King George VI addresses the nation 1939: News - Outbreak of ...

As Remembrance Day approaches, it is important to remember the part women played during WW2. This is my late mother-in-law in 1942, Private Marian Bower in her Auxiliary Territorial Army uniform. On ...

Young Chinese holding booze and cigarettes shake and sway in a red-lit passageway, below a big screen rolling through quotations from Chairman Mao. This is an underground rave in China ...