The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives lost have never been accurately measured, nor do scholars agree on the ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Eighty years after the guns fell silent in the Pacific theater of World War II, the region it reshaped continues to remember – and forget – in strikingly different ways. In China, the memory has never ...