
Collateral Casualties: Poetry of the Second World War
"Only Man deserves brute suffering"
"Only Man deserves brute suffering"
“It was an odd time. I felt it was demeaning to do housework when I knew I was capable of something else…"
A daring Russian fighter pilot faced perils from friend and foe when he decided to escape a concentration camp in a German Heinkel 111 bomber.
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The Japanese diplomat is credited with saving the lives of as many as 6,000 Jewish men, women, and children prior to 1941
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Russia’s largest military history museum launched an art exhibit to honor female fighters from World War II
“I still have the same dream of a Hellcat on my tail, and I can’t shake it.”
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Tasked with suppressing a nationalist insurgency in the East Indies, Turkish-born Dutch commando Raymond Westerling proved brutally successful