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 ...

Prominent British historian Roger Moorhouse has said that a secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the late 1930s gave the green light to Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland and ...

Eighty years this week, World War II began. “The telephone in Franklin Roosevelt’s bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a. m. on the first day of September,” the Sept. 11, 1939, issue of TIME ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making excellent use of neglected Zambian archives, Tembo surveys the impact of World War II on colonial Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia, as it was then called. Readers will find much to appreciate in ...

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 ...

The British-born historian Davies -- author of a best-selling history of Europe and several respected works on Poland -- has written two books to help compensate for what he sees as a parochial, ...

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 ...