Much has been made of Rosie the Riveter, the character who, in U.S. government propaganda during World War II, inspired women ...

If WWII history is one of your interests, you’ll find something here to intrigue you — or one of these fascinating heroines will pique your interest. Read on: ...

During the Second World War, Poland endured immense and tragic losses that left an indelible mark on its history. As one of the first countries to be invaded by Nazi Germany in September 1939, Poland ...

During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers. When some of these women were captured by German forces, they often faced ...

During the war, the city of Leningrad endured one of the longest and most devastating sieges in modern history.

The Maryland author and retired U.S. Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings will be in Baltimore Saturday to discuss her journey from military brat to an author and advocate for a trailblazing — and too-long ...

The 6888th's mission was simple in theory, but massive in scale: sort and deliver millions of pieces of backlogged mail to American troops stationed across Europe.

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

Ches Black, 100, was taken to Berlin in Germany due to a shortage of manual labour there - but had no idea he would be working for the dictator.

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran and Mark Olsky, who as babies survived the Holocaust along with their mothers, finally met in 2010 The Jewish mothers of Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran and Mark Olsky ...

On the cold evening of Feb. 27, 1943, Charlotte Israel gathered with a small crowd of women on the Rosenstrasse, a narrow street in central Berlin. They were not Jewish, but their husbands were, and ...

Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.