The Reckoning" offers a vital, nuanced perspective on World War II's final year, particularly focusing on India, Burma, and ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

The leaders of NATO, the world’s most powerful military alliance, gather on Tuesday at The Hague in the Netherlands for their ...

War movies have been a popular genre of cinema for decades, evolving from the wartime propaganda films of the 20th century to ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

My father’s parents hoped to help build a just, peace-loving society in the Soviet Union, one founded on the principle of ...

Post-World War II Liverpool was generally very antisemitic and Lennon came from an anti-Jewish background. He was known to make impromptu antisemitic ...

I was born into a Jewish family in 1950 as American Judaism began its long summer of success, but each year summer ended soon ...

“For a kingdom with only one language and one custom is weak and fragile.” This sentence, written around 1030 by King Stephen I of Hungary, can be regarded as a cornerstone in the argument for ...

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, to prosecute prominent members of Nazi Germany for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ...

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