“Denver: The City and Its Art,” with its colorful photographs by Caroline Miller, is a bit large to carry in your pocket.

"During World War II, the British dressed a dead body in a Royal Marines uniform and planted letters saying the Allies were going to invade Greece, and that Sicily was just a decoy. It was called ...

It fell to others to reflect on the costs of maintaining the myth of “Mussolinian miracle-working,” as Tullio Cianetti, a ...

"During World War II, the British dressed a dead body in a Royal Marines uniform and planted letters saying the Allies were ...

Imagine yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Waves gently rock the hull as you step onto the deck. You’re there ...

In February 1945, a United Press International reporter interviewed an Oklahoma sniper credited with killing over 130 Germans. Sergeant Horace West told the correspondent his rifle was named after his ...

In early 1943, the Second World War saw a turn in the fortunes of the Axis Powers when, on July 25th, two weeks after the ...

When World War II ended, and the United States stood triumphant, another, quieter victory was unfolding beneath the surface.

When the US Army’s armored divisions arrived in North Africa, they looked unstoppable on paper - but Kasserine Pass exposed a force that was tank-heavy, rigid, and unready for modern combat. In this ...

Over Christmas I re-read TV journalist Alan Whicker’s wartime biography, Whicker’s War, covering his service with the Army ...

A man who embodies the Greatest Generation celebrated another milestone in his remarkable life last week in Cape Coral.  James Elmer Smith, a World War II Navy veteran who was on Utah Beach during the ...

Primo Levi (1919–87), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75), Italo Calvino (1923–85) – and Leonardo Sciascia (1921–89), the subject ...