This extended video offers a sweeping look at the Second World War across all major theatres. From the Blitzkrieg in Europe ...

A detailed day-by-day map of the Eastern Front in World War II, showing shifting front lines, major offensives, and key turning points between Germany and the Soviet Union.

World War II, which concluded 80 years ago, was a historic event that defined a generation. Tens of millions of people fought brutal oppression and an unfathomable Holocaust. Today, the world ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

Mr. Darman, a journalist and historian, is the author of “Becoming FDR.” Eighty-one years ago this week, men from the advancing U.S. Army stood in a rain-soaked farm field in Margraten, the ...