The Hollywood star plays a POW in the much-anticipated screen adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker-Prize-winning novel, ...

Gibson WWII banner guitars are hot vintage commodities these days, but immediately after the war, the company pretended they didn't exist.

To thank America for its support during the war, France sent a boxcar stuffed with gifts to each state. But in the late 1950s ...

They didn’t fire real weapons—but they won real battles. The “Ghost Army” was a top-secret U.S. unit during WWII that used inflatable tanks, fake radio traffic, and sound effects to deceive the ...

The lowest brass instrument, the tuba, is a powerful voice to tell the story of a soldier from Kansas City going to war—his hopes, his memories of music back home, and experience on the battlefield.

The White House continues to defend President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs on imports from around the world.

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

I’ve learned there are a great number of people curious about aviation stories from World War II,” says Carl Molesworth, ...

A member of the Department of History since 2006, Krysko teaches and writes on the history of technology and U.S. foreign relations. "Contested Airwaves" is his second book and is part of the ...