The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II ...

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Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...

A Russian team discovered a sprawling bunker complex apparently built by imperial Japanese forces ... of Hokkaido seized by Soviet forces at the end of World War II. The expedition leader likened ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. This is a prevailing consensus of the international community, including ...

The Trump Doctrine has been coming into focus for a while, but the leak of an internal Defense Department memo, called the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, clarifies the matter. The full ...

Magazine magnate Henry Luce pushed for internationalism and bemoaned the “moral and practical bankruptcy of any and all forms ...

The Senate confirmed Matt Whitaker late Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO, a crucial emissary to the Western ...

Mass jobs protest in Britain; Chiang Kai-shek dies; US longshore leader witch-hunted; Eisenstein films Battleship Potemkin.

The U.S. has often pursued protectionism to boost economic growth. But history shows that this approach can backfire.