Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...

Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging from ...

But long before America entered the World War II, a “Superman” comic strip titled “ How Would Superman End The War? ” showed Superman single-handedly beating the Nazis, Soviets, and Japanese and ...

You think books have covered everything there is to write about World War II skullduggery, and then you stumble upon the book about how spies used Monopoly to pull the wool over Nazis’ eyes. The ...

Wikimedia Commons/Adam Cuerden Maj Della Raney Della Hayden Raney was born January 10, 1912, in Suffolk, Virginia to George ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

The latest edition of the Medal of Honor-focused comic book series brings Clint Romesha's actions in Afghanistan in 2009 to ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

Aaron Quitugua will launch his new book "The CHamoru American Warrior" on Liberation Day, combining his quest to secure a ...