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"A book club is a safe haven women can count on for hope in an increasingly fragmented and isolating world" writes Martha ...
A British journalist whose BBC documentaries tackled the Nazi dictatorship's chaos has released a new book exploring the ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Walter Isaacson about the world America made after World War II. Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First ...
V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.
There isn’t a specific category of sales data for kids books about World War II overall. But print book ... Cheek had earlier read “Uprising" after coming across it in her school library.
In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.
The only Women's Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War II received a Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday, exactly 80 years after pulling off an incredible ... the ceremony in the U.S ...
World War II veteran Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter was honored Wednesday with the unveiling of a sculpture at Moline ...
Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... are still lessons to learn from it, decades after the Allies declared victory in Europe on May ...
At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the ... The dissident Kundera was writing behind the Iron Curtain after World War II about the importance of remembering: “The ...
As we celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day this week, let us finally commemorate the thousands of women who picked up the tools laid down after the men went off to war, and got to work building ...
(The book to read is "Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II" by Jan ... in Crystal City. After the war ...