When the world was reinvented: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin & the end of World War II Historian Michael Neiberg tells Salon about the perils of the postwar era & the limits of the what great men can do ...

World War 2 revelation: Stalin's never-before-seen 'apology card' to Churchill revealed WINSTON CHURCHILL received a birthday message during World War 2 from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in which ...

Instead of writing yet another history of World War II centered on Adolf Hitler, McMeekin takes a more original approach, focusing on Joseph Stalin. McMeekin pulls no punches in reminding readers that ...

Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill gathered in Tehran in 1943 to plan their strategy for winning World War II. Photograph by The New York Times Photo Archives, Redux.

“Stalin’s War” argues that his crimes were dwarfed by those of Joseph Stalin. Basic Books "Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II" by Sean McMeekin, Basic Books, 831 pp.

As we mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, RFE/RL is looking again at some of the factors that determined the course of the struggle and shaped the new world that emerged from it.

By the spring of 1939 Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich and Joseph Stalin’s USSR had been “pouring buckets of shit on each other’s heads” for ... The first phase of World War II was over; ...

T his book makes the case that Adolf Hitler was within a whisker of winning the Second World War and failed to do so only because President Roosevelt came to the rescue of Joseph Stalin, Hitler ...

Sir Michael Caine stars as Stalin in a World War 2 classic that includes Churchill and FDR and is now free to stream. By George Simpson , Film & Music Editor 17:56, Mon, Jan 27, 2025 | UPDATED: 08 ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.