Publishers are racing to churn out more historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters.

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

With fears of a new world war ascendant, the lessons of World War II continue to resonate, though there is less agreement ...

Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of “The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... Those resigned to their lots were often early victims. The most likely survivors were those with a burning determination to ...

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deport ...