The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, set in post-war Nagasaki and 1980s England, needed to be made into a ...

World War II veteran Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter was honored Wednesday with the unveiling of a sculpture at Moline ...

War can be a potent catalyst for social change back home, WWII also taught us. New technologies like jets, computers, ...

were on the edge of their seats a few weeks ago as author Jennifer A. Nielsen told them about Lidia Durr Zakrzewski, a ...

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the foreign ministers of the Baltic States, ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Walter Isaacson about the world America made after World War II. Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First ...

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, ...

Dashiell Hammett, the well-known author of “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man,” established a newspaper called the ...

Ian Fleming is best known for writing 12 James Bond novels and a collection of 007 short stories inspired by his World War 2 ...

PARIS—As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by ...

Author Robert Edsel, who’s known for consulting George Clooney on his film “The Monuments Men” and his acclaimed TV series “Hunting Nazi Treasure,” will be at the National World War II ...