The Forgotten Front: Italy’s Multi-Layered Resistance In the autumn of 1943, as Allied forces pushed north through Italy, a newly […]
Introduction: Europe’s Fractured Landscape After WWII The aftermath of World War II saw unprecedented population movements across Europe, with millions […]
A Continent in Flux: The Origins of Post-War Border Changes When the Allied leaders gathered in Tehran in 1943, they […]
A Continent in Chaos: The Aftermath of World War II The end of World War II in Europe did not […]
The Historical Context of Postwar Retribution The immediate aftermath of World War II was marked by a wave of violent […]
The Historical Context of Occupation and Collaboration When Nazi Germany occupied much of Western Europe during World War II, it […]
The Shadow of Occupation: Europe Under Nazi Domination By the height of World War II, Nazi Germany directly or indirectly […]
The Cycle of Revenge: Historical Context The aftermath of World War II in Eastern Europe witnessed a dramatic reversal of […]
The Origins of POW Protections and Their Collapse The treatment of prisoners of war has long been one of history’s […]
The Historical Backdrop of Liberation When Allied forces liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945, the world witnessed the horrors of […]
The Misremembered Dawn of European Reconstruction Contemporary discussions of postwar reconstruction often paint an idealized picture of Europe’s rapid recovery […]
The Ashes of War and the Seeds of Optimism When the guns fell silent in May 1945, Europe lay in […]
The Desperate Landscape of Postwar Europe When British officer Norman Lewis entered a Naples square in October 1943, shortly after […]
The Collapse of Europe’s Food Supply When World War II erupted, one of the few things that unified Europe was […]
The Collapse of Order and the Birth of a Humanitarian Catastrophe World War II was not only the deadliest conflict […]
The Scale of Destruction Beyond Comprehension When discussing the devastation of World War II in Europe, no description can fully […]
The Illusion of a Germanic Warsaw In 1943, as World War II raged across Europe, the German travel publisher Karl […]
A Gamble Across the Ocean In October 1962, the world stood closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point before […]
The Cold War’s Most Dangerous Moment The afternoon of October 27, 1962, marked the most perilous day of the Cuban […]
A World on Edge: The Context of October 1962 The autumn of 1962 found the world teetering on the precipice […]
A Routine Mission Goes Terribly Wrong On what should have been a standard 7-hour 50-minute Arctic reconnaissance mission, U-2 pilot […]
A High-Stakes Reconnaissance Mission On the morning of October 27, 1962, Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. embarked on what would become […]
