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These films and TV shows explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allied strategic gamble, 80 years on.
Who was Lee Miller, the subject of Kate Winslet’s new biopic?
Winslet battled for eight years to bring the extraordinary life story of Lee Miller to the big screen.
Mongolia has worked hard to craft friendly relations across the globe. But geography means that Russia and China still retain a strong influence.
Dennis Glover asks where the world might be heading and warns that maybe the endgame has already begun.
This time it is Ukrainian troops that are on the offensive.
Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, helping raise anti-communist fervor after World War II and illustrating how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.
Even as Germany’s defeat loomed, the Nazis deported nearly 1,700 Jews of the Ladino-speaking community of Rhodes to concentration camps.
Although tempting to make the comparison, Vladimir Putin’s recent military purge doesn’t appear to be a replay of Stalin’s infamous purge in 1937.
On Flag Day, a historian of religions in America explains how the Pledge of Allegiance, which honors the American flag, is part of American civil religion.
Many victim-survivors and scholars say ‘sex slaves’ more accurately describes the abuses the women endured, but governments have been slow to change their view.
Veterans are rightly centered in D-day events but the speeches that invited heads of state deliver bring proceedings into the geopolitical present.
British progressive economists such as Barbara Wootton and William Beveridge locked horns with Friedrich Hayek over their vision of a European federation.
Scientists with expertise in mud and peat were a key part of planning the Normandy landings in 1944.
In the first wave to hit the beach, troops were met by withering German gunfire. But they kept pushing and established a small beachhead from which the invasion could continue.
The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.
A pre-World War II US Navy plan for a modular floating platform has developed into a key lifeline in Gaza and at disaster sites around the world.
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
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