To save mankind from the scourge of war… These eight words drawn from the preamble to the Charter of the United Nations have been ringing in my head for the past week. Most believe that they were penned…
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Hitler’s plan for a weapon that would outgun the allies was doomed – but one engineer has been trying to find out how it worked.
The trials weren’t perfect, but the Allies had wanted to shoot the defendants, so at least the world learned something about justice.
The Israeli prime minister’s comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
Magda Szubanski’s engaging debut memoir, Reckoning, is an exercise in precisely that: reconciling the past. It is also a celebration of the life and career of one of our greatest comedians.
With the Iran deal, Obama may be repeating a famous strategic misstep from World War II.
The timing of Hitler’s home renovations coincided with his public makeover as a statesman and diplomat.
In the years following the end of World War II, Germany took in between 12 and 14 million refugees. What lessons does this past disaster have for today’s Europe?
Some excerpts from the diary of Ivan Maisky, the WW2 Soviet ambassador in London.
Ivan Maisky’s account of his life in London provides a detailed and personal account of life at the epicentre of the dramatic events leading to World War II.
When buildings began to rise from the ruins and the rubble, the planners missed an opportunity to create a better society.
Despite big hopes for rebuilding Coventry’s manufacturing heart after the Blitz, the tale of Hillfields became one of sad decline.
Many people outside China find it hard to understand its obsession with history. Appropriately enough, however, a little historical context can help to explain this. China has had more recorded history…
Wilfred Burchett wrote stories about war that the Australian and US governments preferred not to be told. For this, he paid the price.
It would be wrong to see China’s role in the second world war as a story of the powerful West coming to the rescue of a hapless Chinese nation.
The Pacific War played out as a colonial war in the Pacific. It was brutal for non-combatant civilians in its path, and its impact epitomised the dehumanising capacity of both war and colonialism.
The Slovenian band Laibach are best known for their use of fascist iconography – but they’re far more subversive than this might indicate.
One ceremony on V J Day announced that the Sumatra railway had been completed, the construction of which had cost more than 80,000 lived and that 70 years later is still a little known story.
In the West, it is often forgotten that 1945 marks the end of not only the second world war but also of a much longer period of political and social upheaval in Asia.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were but two cataclysms among many: in the literal sense, they were unremarkable.
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