“Dear Miss Lake,” the fourth and final book in the series begun by “ Dear Mrs. Bird,” suggests that it was time to wrap things up. It’s been a charming ride with Emmy Lake. As AJ Pearce’s “Dear Mrs.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction xi -- One -- THE BIG PICTURE 1 -- A World at Arms:A Global History of World War II by -- Gerhard L.Weinberg 3 -- The Times Atlas of the Second World War ...

A battered World War Two book telling the stories of people from part of old Telford who fought during the hostilities, is to be republished as part of events to mark 80 years since VJ (Victory in ...

This is an incredibly detailed and propulsive narrative that captures one of the great naval battles of the war, the Oct. 25, 1944, Battle of Samar, in which a small, dramatically outgunned U.S. task ...

Check out real voices from the frontlines, an account of the first-ever ‘smart weapon’, a videogame in which the fight against fascism continues.

In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and Agfa helped produce weapons of war during the 20th century.

When British historian Richard Overy set out to write about World War II from a new perspective, he was acutely aware that he was stepping into a field saturated with sweeping accounts, well-trodden ...

Letters from World War II combatants to family members. were rescued from the trash and now are used to teach Oak Lawn students.

But nevertheless, when the war was over, the United States was the preeminent power in the world—except for Britain—had lost ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.