By late 1941, the Japanese were far from content with their holdings in Asia. After four years of war with China, hopes of a greater destiny and extended reach across the Far East remained unfulfilled, and ….

At the time an ascendent Hitler was coming into power, more than nine million Jews lived in Europe. Years of Nazi vitriol toward German Jews was initially regarded as just the latest iteration of the noxious…

A series of Japanese victories marked the opening months of the war in the Pacific. As the Imperial Army rolled across British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, enriching the Japanese empire with oil and other…

By early 1944, the Japanese were mired in a string of defeats in the Pacific. Pushed out of the Solomon and Marshall island chains, they braced for the next American campaign, expected in the Mariana…

September 1944 was a pivotal month on the European continent. After hundreds of thousands of casualties, German resistance in France had collapsed, ending the four-year occupation and liberating tens of…

The Great Depression was a sledgehammer blow to the American manufacturing sector, shuttering countless factories and adding millions of workers to the ranks of the unemployed. By the end of the 1930s…

In 1898, just three decades after the country was ravaged by the horrors and bloodshed of civil war, a newly industrialized America was primed to exert its budding military might on the global stage. War was…

As American and Japanese troops skirmished across the South Pacific throughout mid-1943, battling for jungle-strewn islands amid suffocating tropical heat and rampant disease, a smaller…