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David Nasaw’s Unsparing Tour of America’s World War II and Its Aftermath

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...
Foreign Affairs

We Are Still Fighting World War II

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...
United States Army

80 YEARS LATER: Recalling end of World War II at Camp McCoy

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...
The New York Times

Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III

Mr. Lipavský is the foreign minister of the Czech Republic. Mr. Tsahkna is the foreign minister of Estonia. Ms. Braže is the foreign minister of Latvia. Mr. Budrys is the foreign minister of Lithuania ...
The White House

Presidential Message on the 80th Anniversary of Winning World War II

On August 14, 1945, the Allied Powers accepted Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II, delivering a hard-fought American victory in the Pacific and bringing the deadliest war in ...