Marvin Strombo, a United States Marine who as a young man on war-torn islands of the Pacific saw humanity at its worst and journeyed to Japan at age 93 to display it at its best, died Tuesday night.

Bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater approaches her first adult novel with the same literary finesse as her previous work ...

Erie resident, Bill Welch is honoring local World War II veterans and their families in a different way. He's writing a book about the greatest generation. He has nearly two hundred pages written and ...

Japanese warplanes indiscriminately bombed Chongqing, then China's provisional capital, and nearby cities more than 250 times between 1938 and 1944, killing and injuring more than 32,000 people.

Authors Michael Dobrin and Jerry Eppler tell their family stories intertwined with the development of a federal aviation ...

He received World War II books, even though he can’t read the ones written in Czech. The Embassy is mailing him a U.S. flag that flew there May 6, the 80th anniversary of U.S. troops liberating ...

KYIV, May 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife browsed the stalls at a literary fair in Kyiv on Friday and left with some new reading material - a book entitled "To ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

Novels like Slaughterhouse-Five and Life and Fate provide unique insights into how World War II affected soldiers and those in their periphery.

Woolf’s most famous book is about an upper-class woman’s busy day, sure, but it’s also about the ways in which she is caged by the very expectations that come with her privilege, and it’s ...

While such dedications aren't typical, neither is the story of Johnson, who received the nation's third-highest military honor, the Silver Star, for his actions during the Battle of Tarawa ... in the ...