List of World War II articles
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748px-L_to_R,_President_Truman,_George_C._Marshall,_Paul_Hoffman,_and_Averell_Harriman_in_the_oval_office_discussing_the..._-_NARA_-_200035 An Auspicious Anniversary for the Marshall Plan
Seventy years after George Marshall’s famous speech built the modern foundation of the transatlantic alliance, Donald Trump seems determined to tear it apart.
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RAF_Fighter_Command_1940_HU104450 1940: Middle-class pilots saved England, and what that meant for British politics
This is an excerpt from my new book, 'Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.'
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russia parade crop In Pictures: Russia Shows Off Military Might in Massive WWII Victory Parade
Including a new Arctic air defense system.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 22: U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump today mocked protesters who gathered for large demonstrations across the U.S. and the world on Saturday to signal discontent with his leadership, but later offered a more conciliatory tone, saying he recognized such marches as a "hallmark of our democracy." (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) Trump’s Pox Americana
The new president has sounded an unprecedented retreat for the United States from its role as a world leader.
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kirsch Reading in the Dark
In the age of Trump, literature can sustain those searching for the courage to resist the politics of division.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Wait a minute, it wasn’t ‘Time’ magazine that invented the term ‘blitzkrieg’?
I’d been taught that “blitzkrieg” was a pseudo-German term invented by the Anglo-American press to describe the emerging Nazi way of war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How a Meeting with the Dalai Lama Lost This Holocaust Survivor a Czech State Award
His nephew, a government minister, says the award was rescinded after a meeting with the Dalai Lama.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In A Year of Terrible Referendums, We Invite You to Vote on the World’s Very Worst
Now it's your turn to cast a ballot!
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Once Upon a Time, Another Tycoon Stole the GOP
But unlike Donald Trump, Wendell Willkie was a powerful proponent of internationalism and America’s role as a global steward.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A World War II Marine looks back and wonders: Where’s the America of sharing?
Best Defense is in summer reruns. Here is an item that originally ran on February 12, 2016.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who pays for war
Here are the thoughts of Larry Kirby, a World War II Marine.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dipping into Gen. Marshall’s final papers: A decent man, not always treated decently
The mailboat the other day brought Volume 7 of the papers of Gen. George C. Marshall.
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UPA The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A World War II Marine looks back and wonders: Where’s the America of sharing?
I am now 91 years of age and it has been 70 long, wide years since I returned home on Christmas Eve, 1945.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Architect of the Holocaust Denied His Guilt Until His Dying Day
New letters released Wednesday show Adolf Eichmann's pleas for amnesty.
