The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the ...

As the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II nears, Chinese parade soldiers are being put through their paces ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its WWII surrender with PM Shigeru Ishiba expressing "remorse" for the first time since ...

World War II veterans, some age 100 or older, gathered Friday at a Lehigh Valley ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of ...

The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced ...

World War II remains the most devastating conflict in human history, engulfing more than 60 countries and dragging nearly 2 ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a turning point in world history, pulling the United States directly into ...

Memories of the war, such as the Imperial Japanese Army's bombing of Darwin, remained vivid for many Australians, and ...

Japan on Friday marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, as the aging of survivors and ongoing global ...