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.
The Nazi's bombed Coventry to brea morale, learn why it did not work.
Danzig, a city in German-controlled Prussia during WWII—and now, as Gdansk, part of Poland—was particularly damaged during the war.Hitler ...
Voted "The Greatest Briton," by his country, Winston Churchill died on January 24, 1965. After lying in state, at Westminster, he had a state funeral ...
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942. At the time, German forces were...
Allies came ashore on August 19, 1942 to German occupiers at the ready, casualties were high.
See the massive Allied bombing attack on Dresden, during February and March of 1945. Bomb runs began on February 13th, reducing the city to utter deva...
Although he was a pacifist, who despised war, Albert Einstein also realized that if Hitler and his scientists were the first to discover how to build ...
This image depicts the second page of a letter - from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt - which changed the world.
Was General Eisenhower nervous or apprehensive, in any way, regarding the Normandy Invasion? He may not have expressed words, but he gives us a clue ...
A voice for the voiceless, Elie Wiesel died July 2, 2016. "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference," is one of his memorable lines.
The Enigma Machine, which Germany used extensively during World War II, has a list of instructions on its inside cover. Have a look, with an English t...
Meet the real Erling Storrusten, the inspiration for Margi Preus' main character, Espen, in her novel "Shadown on the Mountain."
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