December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before Congress. It’s also on this day that former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

World War II was “the greatest and most terrible event in human history,” Max Hastings writes, and any doubts are sure to be dispelled by reading his gripping and comprehensive account of that epic ...

Most historians and scholars agree, the proximate start of the Second World War is Hitler's invasion of Poland on September ...

World War II is one of the most significant events in human history. It claimed the lives of millions, devastated the economies of multiple countries, and forever changed life as we knew it. Its ...

The kind of history that proposed big round answers to large historical questions or propounded Toynbee-like views of man’s drift simply did not show in ’55. Fascinating bits of Americana were almost ...

They gave their newspapers names like the Snarkyville Gazette, Bull Sheet, Scars and Gripes, and the Sunday Mud and Mildew. Their stories clackety-clacked out of battle-scarred typewriters in war ...

Japanese War was the ultimate test between the respective modernisation processes of both Japan and China. The war didn't last for too long, and its aftermath significantly influenced the ...

Amid global egg shortages, let’s look back at a wartime staple: powdered eggs. “Eggs are extremely perishable and fragile, and so there is always a lot of interest in trying to extend that shelf life ...

Medgar Evers, a key figure in the civil rights movement, was 19 years old when his Army unit arrived in Normandy in June 1944, shortly after the D-Day invasion. Evers was part of a segregated unit ...