In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...
The objective was to make the enemy decide that Hitler and Hirohito weren’t worth fighting for anymore—to cause soldiers to surrender and civilians to despair or even resist. Verisimilitude ...
​In other words, President Zelensky found himself defending his nation from attack not only by a ruthless Russian dictator ...
The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...
When my mother was asked why she joined the Navy during World War II, she would reply: “We were at war. I had to do something.” Mother was one of 100,000 women who enlisted in the Waves ...
Adolf Hitler was determined to resist to the very ... the terrified aircraft crews and for those on whom the bombs fell. Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945. By Francis Pike.
Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.