The best books about World War II include works of non-fiction like Man's Search for Meaning alongside post-modern novels like Gravity's Rainbow.

Winston Churchill called it "the Beast." It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton ...

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, a big-budget film about the English army’s unlikely escape across the channel during a key battle of World War II, we took a look at some of the ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - Small-town Minnesota farm boys were highly sought after by the U.S. military during World War II. Drawing from photos, military reports, newspapers, journal excerpts, letters and ...

'Stand By to Get Married' by Anne Holland draws on hundreds of wartime letters exchanged by her parents during the Second ...

They gave their newspapers names like the Snarkyville Gazette, Bull Sheet, Scars and Gripes, and the Sunday Mud and Mildew. Their stories clackety-clacked out of battle-scarred typewriters in war ...

Shortly after December 7, 1941, the infamous day of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army moved hundreds of its personnel onto the Disney lot, taking over several buildings. Suddenly the war ...

Nearly 80 years have passed since the end of World War II, but popular and scholarly interest in history’s deadliest conflict shows no sign of abating. Studies of the war roll off the presses at a ...

A new Poster House exhibit in New York City highlights how books helped soldiers cope with war’s isolation and stress, revealing a lesser-known side of combat life.

MILLBURN — At 7 p.m. on Tuesday Nov. 17, John J. McLaughlin, moderator of the NJ World War 2 Book Club, will speak to club members about General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whom he will describe as largely ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire. Before their B-29 bomber exploded, one man died on board and another was fatally ...