During World War II, the Liberation of Paris Saved the French Capital From Destruction Adolf Hitler wanted Paris razed. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted his troops to stay out of the city.

Italy, the spring of 1944. The American 5th Army had invaded months earlier, but found itself stuck in a stalemate against Italian and German forces in the winter months.

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflected on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by the ...

The book was written during World War II and released right around the liberation of Paris. The book has no characters, no dialogue, and it’s just a day-by-day story about survival during the war.

In the annals of Nazi-looted art—that dark episode in cultural expropriation in Europe during World War II—the figure of Rose Valland is something of an enigma. To be sure, Valland (1898-1980 ...