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World War II remains one of the most comprehensively studied events in modern history. It redefined borders, ideologies, and the nature of war itself. Yet amid the millions of words written on the ...

They gave their newspapers names like the Snarkyville Gazette, Bull Sheet, Scars and Gripes, and the Sunday Mud and Mildew. Their stories clackety-clacked out of battle-scarred typewriters in war ...

Paula Bernice Roberts was swept off her feet by a passionate young World War II hero she met after her parents died. Her own father. "He was so romantic and he loved my mother so much," Roberts, who ...

Royce and Becky Singleton had only been married seven months in October, 1943, but Royce, a Navy fighter pilot, was aboard the USS Suwannee escort carrier headed to the Central Pacific. Royce's ship ...

J.D. Salinger was so devoted to his goal of becoming a published writer that not even the deadliest war in world history could stop him. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, Salinger served as a ...

A forgotten World War II diary detailing the lives of a South African family inextricably linked to the war has been made ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

An auditorium of eager kids in Washington, Okla., were on the edge of their seats a few weeks ago as author Jennifer A. Nielsen told them about Lidia Durr Zakrzewski, a teenager who joined the Polish ...