Leo XIV's appeals for peace, especially in the Holy Land, have mostly been boilerplate and lacking in passion. If he wishes, ...

As John Hirst put it in a brilliant, recently republished Black Inc essay on Curtin’s wartime prime ministership that set the ...

He survived the hell of war and a POW camp, only to die in a heat wave in Chicago,” said a retired Army captain Thursday as ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has unveiled a controversial plan to slash 43.8 billion euros ($51 billion) from state ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

As Lyon celebrated the Liberation, survivors of the death camps tried to reconnect with daily life, despite hardship, silence ...

Lt. William Bucey, who survived the Bataan Death March but died of malaria in 1944, will finally receive a proper burial in ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou presented a severe €43.8 billion in budget cuts on Tuesday, including a proposal to ...

Day, is commemorated as the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II saw ...

A mosaic panel on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of ...

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.