Like many other veterans of World War II, J.D. Salinger returned home bearing scars more psychological than physical. He hid ...

A crew had just watched their bombs drop over Kyushu, Japan when flak hit their aircraft and an engine caught fire.

“The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill” by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, 400 pages, $29.99. As the number of survivors of World War II continues ...

The kind of history that proposed big round answers to large historical questions or propounded Toynbee-like views of man’s drift simply did not show in ’55. Fascinating bits of Americana were almost ...

World War II remains one of the most comprehensively studied events in modern history. It redefined borders, ideologies, and the nature of war itself. Yet amid the millions of words written on the ...

A new exhibition tells the story of the Armed Services Editions, pocket-size paperback weapons in the fight for democracy. A soldier reading in a flooded camp in New Guinea during World War II.Credit.

Paula Bernice Roberts was swept off her feet by a passionate young World War II hero she met after her parents died. Her own father. "He was so romantic and he loved my mother so much," Roberts, who ...

They gave their newspapers names like the Snarkyville Gazette, Bull Sheet, Scars and Gripes, and the Sunday Mud and Mildew. Their stories clackety-clacked out of battle-scarred typewriters in war ...

J.D. Salinger was so devoted to his goal of becoming a published writer that not even the deadliest war in world history could stop him. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, Salinger served as a ...