What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...
Casey Chong presents a selection of underrated World War II romance movies to add to your watchlist… World War II has ...
Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...
Operation Good Cheer is a decades-old program that matches U.S. soldiers with German families during the holidays.
In May 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, a bizarre battle unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops from the U.S.
In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.
Christmas is traditionally intended to be a time of peace and celebration—but most recent wars have continued unabated during the holiday season.
The experience at battle solidified Howard Buford’s approach to life. ‘I don’t carry grudges around. I don’t carry anger around.” ...
Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...
On Christmas Eve in 1914, many men were in the trenches fighting the war, but the spirit of Christmas halted the conflict for ...
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. ” (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) World War I is considered the ...
This article was originally published in 2023. It is a story so well known it has become a meme. “Americans: Willing to cross ...