Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Russia has officially ended a 30-year-old military cooperation agreement with Germany, marking a major turning point in ...

It's been 80 years since the cities of dust and ash clouds hanging over Europe. Today, World War II and the fields of killing are memories set in the certainty of statues and headstones. But as a war ...

World War II also led into the Cold War. Some historians say that this new conflict started in 1947 with the Clay-Robertson agreement, in which British and U.S. authorities decided to industrialize ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter the public consciousness again. For 80 years, the world has lived with the… ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned 96 this June; Senator Bob Dole, a veteran of the Italian campaign in 1945, died four years ago.

May 8, 1945, was the end of major fighting in the European arena of World War II, but fighting in the Pacific for U.S. and allied troops continued for nearly four more months, until Sept. 2 of ...