The series centers on real-life military officer Felix Sparks (Bradley James) during his time fighting in the Italian ...

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.

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.

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 ...

10. Fires on the Plain (1959) Daiei Film. Set in the final days of World War II, Fires on the Plain tells the story of a tubercular Japanese soldier who, after being dismissed from his unit and ...

Actor Cesar Romero served with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II—here the original “Joker” displays a captured Arisaka rifle that he brought home in late 1944.

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was part of Japan’s wider plan to dominate the entire Asia ...

Further details are available from the book "World War II Rhode Island" by Christian McBurney et al, published by The History Press in 2017, and from the internet sources cited in the text.

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.

From the Zero to the Messerschmitt Bf-109, Axis powers in World War II fielded some terribly fearsome aircraft. Here are 10 of their most iconic fighter jets.

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 ...

This 104-year-old World War II veteran is guaranteed to make you smile 01:52. At 104 years old, Don Tietz is the oldest resident of Cottage Grove, but even at his remarkable age he still hasn't ...