World War II
Why Video Games Love Special Forces Heroes
These action heroes represent what both a confused public and video games makers themselves crave so desperately: absolute certainty, whatever war's complexities.
Why Video Games Love Special Forces Heroes
These action heroes represent what both a confused public and video games makers themselves crave so desperately: absolute certainty, whatever war's complexities.
Underwater Archaeologists Are Exploring an Undisturbed WWII Battlefield
NOAA explorers are bringing the "Battle of the Atlantic" back to life.
Why Gay German Men Are Seeking Reparations for a Homophobic Nazi Law
Remembering Paragraph 175, the outrageous law which persecuted German gay men long after the fall of Nazi rule.
WWII Sim ‘Hearts of Iron IV’ Makes the Modern World Look Like It’s On the Brink
Where the world stands in 2016 is much like where it was in 1936, which is where Paradox's strategy game begins.
WWII Sim ‘Hearts of Iron IV’ Makes the Modern World Look Like It’s On the Brink
Where the world stands in 2016 is much like where it was in 1936, which is where Paradox's strategy game begins.
Here’s what World War II veterans say about Brexit
Campaigners on both sides of the Brexit campaign appealed to World War II history (and Winston Churchill) to make their case.
Archeologists Have Found a Holocaust Escape Tunnel Dug with Spoons
The underground tunnel is believed to have helped at least 12 Jewish prisoners escape from a Nazi extermination site in Lithuania.
Rewatching The Lost Stallone/Pelé Nazi Soccer Epic "Victory" 35 Years Later
Stallone defeated communism in "Rocky IV," but the film in which he teamed up with Pelé and Michael Caine to beat the Nazis at soccer is forgotten. Let's fix that.
Throwback Thursday: Ted Williams Goes to War
In 1942, Ted Williams began a military career as a fighter pilot that ulitmately would take five years from his career as a ballplayer. History is uncompromising like that.
Inside the Radioactive City Russia Doesn’t Want You to Know About
The director of documentary 'City 40' says she's lost contact with residents who risked their lives to tell their story.
Obama Calls For a World Without Nuclear Weapons During Historic Hiroshima Visit
The US President laid a wreath at a memorial, talked about nuclear disarmament, and spoke with survivors, marking the first visit of an incumbent president to the site of the world's first atomic bombing.