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Quit India Movement: Protests, prison writings, and post-war order

August 09, 2025 11:39 am

During the Quit India Movement, the call for independence was amplified in various ways - from street protests to literary reflections penned in confinement. But how do the changes reshaping the post-WWII order provide the context to understand the movement?

Blitzkrieg to Hiroshima: How the Second World War reshaped the global order

July 28, 2025 5:33 pm

How did the Treaty of Versailles contribute to the outbreak of the Second World War, and in what ways did the war’s outcome reshape the global order defined by the hegemony of the US?

Echoes of 1914: How current global tensions mirror the road to World War I

July 04, 2025 1:33 pm

Regional conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, along with tensions between the US and China, Israel and Iran and Russia and NATO, remind us of the volatile prelude to WWI when local conflicts spiraled into a global catastrophe. Let’s revisit the prelude, escalation and consequences of the First World War.

Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with US diplomat aboard

June 15, 2024 9:49 pm

A diving and salvage team in Estonia said this week that it had located well-preserved parts and debris from the Junkers Ju 52 plane operated by Finnish airline Aero, which is now Finnair.

A plane reported to be a World War II-era Spitfire crashes in a field in England

May 26, 2024 12:01 am

The ministry confirmed the death of a Royal Air Force pilot “in a tragic accident” near RAF Coningsby, an airbase. There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.

Ukraine and Russia forces entrenched, Putin to mark WWII anniversary

June 23, 2022 6:57 am

Fighting in the months-long war has favored Russia in recent weeks because of its huge edge in artillery firepower, a fact Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in a late Tuesday night address.

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A WWII family secret: How two trailblazing female artists were rediscovered

June 16, 2022 7:24 pm

Katharina Feil spent decades investigating her family's history under the Nazis, and found out that two of her relatives, Sophie and Betty Wolff, were artists who worked with Käthe Kollwitz

'Like he came back to me': WWII mail received 76 years later

January 07, 2022 12:43 pm

Gonsalves died in 2015. His mother has died as well. But the USPS found an address for his widow, Angelina, whom the soldier met five years after he sent the letter.

Prague to remove monument to WWII Soviet commander

September 13, 2019 12:17 am

Russia vehemently protested when an explanatory text about Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev's role in history crushing the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary and preparing the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia was attached to his monument last year.

Poland totals WWII occupation's cost amid Germany claim talk

September 01, 2018 10:11 am

Poland leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski argues that as the first country the Nazis attacked in 1939, Poland also was the first to put up resistance and suffered greatest losses.