This is Catherine Chidgey’s third novel considering the legacy of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust after ‘The Wish Child’ (2016 ...

Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as ...

History isn’t all generals and politicians. Sometimes it’s a stray mutt or a pigeon with a mission that rewrites the script.

The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in ...

Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a ...

The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that ...

Novels like Slaughterhouse-Five and Life and Fate provide unique insights into how World War II affected soldiers and those in their periphery.

Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. The UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan.

Sir Max Hastings has chosen as his contribution a “micro-history” of the British army’s role in the Normandy invasion of June ...

As a prisoner of war in Germany, Robert Ryan traded his class ring for a can of sardines. Now, 80 years later, his high school did ...