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With less than 1% of all World War II veterans alive, Andrés González Vega recalls his military service, his fight against racism and discrimination and work preserving Puerto Rican culture.
The finder told Newsweek: "Eyre was not just a soldier; he was a human being, with his own dreams and loves and hopes." ...
The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union (HERE) gathered in Milwaukee in 1947 for its ...
Today marks 100 years since the publication of 'Mein Kampf', the book in which the Nazi leader poured all his hatred against ...
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 ...
Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...
The latest edition of the Medal of Honor-focused comic book series brings Clint Romesha's actions in Afghanistan in 2009 to ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
The five best World War 2 books ever written according to the UK’s top military historian Explore the depths of World War II with Sir Antony Beevor's top book picks ...
The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...
But print book sales of such titles focused on the Holocaust, part of the World War II canon, rose 13 per cent since 2023, to 350,000 copies in 2024, according to book tracker Circana BookScan.
The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some of the hottest novels with young readers starting ...