Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, at around 4:48 a.m., an aged German battleship opened fire on a Polish port outside the northern city of Danzig. Strategic bridges were hit at the same time, and air raids began ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...

It’s no accident that the publisher of this book saw fit to put “Author of ’Pippi Longstocking’” after Astrid Lindgren’s name, for that classic children’s book is not merely the chief, but perhaps the ...

Hastings continues a recent substantial body of general audience writing on WWII (Armageddon; Retribution,) in this equally well-researched and well-presented account focusing on the conflict’s human ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3-to-1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

This story has been written onto the BBC People’s War site by CSV story gatherer Ian Hollins on behalf of Dennis Small. The story has been added to the site with his permission and Dennis Small fully ...

I was just over two years old when war was declared, on 3rd September, 1939. Soon after that I was evacuated, together with my mother and sister, to Hitchen in Hertfordshire. We stayed there until my ...

Jeff Glor talks to Max Hastings about, "The Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945." Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Max Hastings: I've written eight books about WWII which were mostly ...