Virginia Nicholson's books include Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million ...

These Marquette High School cheerleaders led the cheers of the student body for Marquette's Explorers football team in 1939.

When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...

They printed photos of the victims, gathered candles used for Jewish mourning and, nervous about how the crowd might respond, set off for a weekly anti-war protest in central Tel Aviv. The women ...

Clare Hollingworth, one of the first and finest female foreign correspondents, was only 27 and a week into her first job when ...

If she had foreseen how this moment would unfold, she would never have conceived in the first place. This is the lived reality of women in war. Decisions to go to war are made by ego-driven men behind ...

Nonfiction 'Four Red Sweaters' tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as ...

in Belgium during World War I. Thousands of Allied soldiers are believed to have died from the poison gas attacks. In 1954, the publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.

By EDO TOBORE From  indications, war remains a recurring decimal ranging from inauguration of human relations across board. The scope is relatively large with due reference to community, ...

From the first world war to the invasion of Iraq, left-wing soldiers have questioned our involvement in wars. Yet we rarely ...

Concentrating on twelve of them – eleven women and one man – Stelzer expertly weaves a fascinating story ... Yet for all the family tragedies, Churchill’s career went from strength to strength in this ...