Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Surrender wasn’t the end—it was the beginning of something worse. For the survivors of Stalingrad, captivity meant a brutal new reality: frostbitten death marches, disease-ridden camps, and hunger ...

The end came slowly—in silence, snow, and fire. With their backs to the Volga, one anti-tank battalion held out in the final hours of Stalingrad. Lieutenant Dietrich Goldbeck remembers the chaos: ...