D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four
Nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
World War 2
A collection of 13 Posts
The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
Jonathan Glancey revisits one of the final airborne operations of World War Two
The Propaganda Girls
Lisa Rogak introduces us to four women whose guile and imagination found a novel outlet in World War Two
Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
József Debreczeni describes his arrival at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp in May 1944
The Vatican, the War and the Pope's Secret Bank
Yvonnick Denoël takes us back to the Second World War and the Vatican's efforts to secure their wealth
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory with Patrick Bishop
On the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, we talk to Patrick Bishop about a complex episode in French history
Why did Joseph Stalin decide to invade Finland in 1939?
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rent...
Excerpt: Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler
The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
Excerpt: Life and Death on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring
Rare Colour Photographs from the Second World War
Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945
On 23 February 1945, one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima
