With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
As Green Hornet's castaways drifted in the Pacific, an albatross stopped by the life raft.
In 1952, Einstein was asked about his role in making atomic bombs. He responded with a short essay, entitled "On My Participation In The Atom Bomb Pro...
During WWII, the U.S. faced enormous logistical problems in The Pacific. This superimposed map explains just part of the problem.
Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions?
You will know why Japan attacked Hawaii.
In April of 1942, Slovakia began handing over its Jews to the Nazi government.
An image, maintained by the German Federal Archives, depicts an elderly woman and three children who have been selected for the "death barracks."
A ship, being used as a German-troop transport, arrives in Norwegian waters on the 8th of April, 1940. After the ship is sunk, by an Allied submarine,...
In September of 1941, thousands of Jewish people were living in (and near) the city ofKiev(inSoviet Ukraine). The Nazis made a decision tokill those ...
The SS City of Benares was torpedoed by a German U-boat on in 1940 despite the September cold and a stormy sea Bess Walder Cummings and her brother su...
"Out of the blue," as survivors recall, the Battle of Britain begins on September 7, 1940. Hundreds of German bombers fly to England from their bases ...
The battle at Cape Gloucester turned from uncontested to a vicious engagement.
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