After years of vague rumblings, explicit threats and open conjecture about the likelihood of a global conflict—in Europe, the ...

Last Updated on October 6, 2025 by Matt Staff Step into the year 1939, a time when the world balanced between everyday life and the stirrings of immense change. These thirty photographs capture ...

The fighter aircraft was never more important than it was during the global calamity that began in ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – _ September 1939: World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland from the west, quickly followed by the Soviet invasion from the east. The carving up of Poland results ...

In September 1939, Britain saw a shocking mass killing of pets as II began. Here’s how fear, wartime panic, and government ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure aircraft ...

During World War II, British women were factory workers, codebreakers, spies and air raid wardens. How did such roles ...

The Strategy and Politics of Fascist Italy during World War II You will learn something new when reading this well written and well edited book about the war effort of Italy in World War II. The ...

Set in the dual timelines of 1664 and 1939 Paris, “Skylark” follows two main storylines: that of Alouette, whose father is in ...