It was the Second World War. In this, the first of a two-part special, we are going to examine some of the key elements and incidents of what is probably the single most influential conflict in ...

There have been many terrible wars in the history of the world in which millions of people lost their lives. But there was a war that was the most terrible and horrific war of human civilization. More ...

Two years earlier, America’s military preparedness was not that of a nation expecting to go to war. In 1939, the United States Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world, possessing a cavalry force ...

Salvaged and renamed Sailfish, the boat served to the end of World War II. Ten days after the Squalus disaster, a junior officer opened the inner door of a flooded torpedo tube and inadvertently ...

After World War Two started in September 1939, the Nazis initially moved east, invading Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union. This brought millions of Jewish people under their control.

It entered amidst the depression's blight and graduated into a world darkened by impending war. On entrance the Class of 1939 was the brightest in history; 588 ranked in the top quarter of their ...

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Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 (London, 2008). Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (London, 2007). Peter Fritzsche, An Iron Wind: ...