As historian Lloyd E. Eastman wrote, China resisted a better-trained and better-equipped army for eight full years. France held out for only six weeks. The UK survived with US supplies. China's stand, ...

Reynolds Tomter of Pigeon Falls, Wisconsin, was 108 years old. WCCO first met Tomter a year ago. He was 107 years old then, and his memories of World War II were as sharp as ever. Tomter was a ...

Why did Germany, defeated in both World War I and WWII, recover so strongly after the latter, but not after the former?

A Macomb Co. woman is the inspiration for a new "Rosie the Riveter" statue to be unveiled on Veterans Day at the World War II ...

Plans for the beloved cathedral’s reconstruction have been disrupted by the pandemic. But Europeans have faced a similar situation before.

To understand how anti-Zionism evolved into a dominant moral language on the progressive left, and how the Palestinian cause came to be seen as the paradigmatic struggle against oppression, we must ...

A 101-year-old local World War II veteran is returning to Europe for the first time since 1945, accompanied by a local ...

Historically inspired watchmakers' Kickstarter campaign enters its final week as fans support new timepiece that pays homage to one of the most important battles of WWII.

That’s one of the stories included in Melange Dance Company’s expanded piece, “Love Letters of World War II.” The show runs ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

Taylor in 1961, The Origins of the Second World War. In a memo written for the Volker Fund, he said: “The central theme of ...

American tanks were decisive in turning the tide of World War 2. American armor marched across Africa and Europe, seizing ...