World War II

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  • You must remember this

    Ken Burns makes deeply emotional films that pluck America's chords of memory. In the case of World War II, this approach feels absolutely right.
    By Gary Kamiya September 25, 2007

  • I Like to Watch

    How suggestible are you? CBS's "Kid Nation," NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice" aim to play you like a fiddle.
    By Heather Havrilesky September 23, 2007

  • Conversations: Steven Okazaki

    The filmmaker behind "White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" shares the survivors' stories he explores in his devastating documentary. An interview and podcast.
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 6, 2007

  • I dream of living a heroic life but I fear I'm just mediocre

    What can I do to realize my fantasies? Do I have any free will at all?
    By Cary Tennis April 19, 2007

  • Breast cancer prevention, "Peeing Toms" and more

    A New Zealand man snaps pictures of women in the bathroom, breast-feeding may help prevent cancer, and comfort women did, indeed, exist.
    By Catherine Price April 17, 2007

  • "Days of Glory"

    This extraordinary and deeply moving Oscar-nominated movie illuminates a forgotten patch of history.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 16, 2007

  • Sex slaves? What sex slaves?

    A Japanese TV network glosses over the painful past between the Imperial Army and "comfort women."
    By Catherine Price January 30, 2007

  • Her life as a spy

    Vera Atkins was a sphinx to those who knew her, but as a superb new biography reveals, the gallant spymistress of World War II was driven by personal secrets and loyalties.
    By Laura Miller January 4, 2007

  • Sen. Webb, true conservative?

    His novel about a war crimes trial suggests he'll join Dodd and Leahy's efforts to repair the constitutional vandalism wreaked by the Military Commissions Act.
    By Joe Conason November 17, 2006

  • "I didn't like sex at all"

    Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.
    By Stephen Amidon August 12, 2006

  • "The Night Watch"

    Sarah Waters' grand new novel chronicles love, sex and obsession among four Britons in crumbling World War II London.
    By Laura Miller March 20, 2006

  • Imagining a world without nuclear weapons

    Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists.
    By Charles Hawley August 6, 2005

  • Reinventing "we the peoples"

    Kofi Annan proposes the first major reforms of the U.N. since it was created 60 years ago, and he knows they won't please everyone.
    By Ian Williams March 26, 2005

  • Hot and horny for Hitler

    What drew German teens by the millions to the Hitler Youth? The uniforms, the camaraderie, the cultish adoration of Der Fuhrer -- and lots of Aryan sex.
    By Jana Prikryl December 3, 2004

  • "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth

    In his most believable novel in years, Philip Roth imagines a 1940s America where Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR and the nation descends into vicious anti-Semitism.
    By Laura Miller September 29, 2004

  • Resisting arrest

    Six decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race.
    By Gary Kamiya June 29, 2004

  • "Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor

    So the Allies ruthlessly -- and unjustifiably -- firebombed Germany's most beautiful city and murdered hundreds of thousands of people, right? Not quite, says a prominent British historian.
    By Laura Miller March 1, 2004

  • America's storyteller

    Legendary oral historian Studs Terkel, still going strong at 91, sings the praises of rebels with a cause.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 27, 2003

  • Patriotic gore

    In Paul Fussell's newest World War II chronicle, the GIs who defeated the Nazis fought an ugly, dirty, bloody war that brutalized them all and ennobled no one. That doesn't mean it was pointless.
    By Charles Taylor September 22, 2003

  • Black and white and dead all over

    In our roundup of the best new mysteries, black America's answer to Ross Macdonald, a Danish boy fights the Nazis, and the great Ross Thomas, back in print at last.
    By Charles Taylor March 17, 2003

  • "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary"

    She was in the bunker with you-know-who and can't forgive herself. In this haunting documentary, 81-year-old Traudl Junge faces the truth.
    By Charles Taylor January 31, 2003

  • The pope, the devil and death

    In Costa-Gavras' hard-hitting if heavy-handed "Amen," an SS officer with a conscience can't convince the Vatican to care about the fate of Europe's Jews.
    By Stephanie Zacharek January 24, 2003

  • "The role of art is to be ahead of its time"

    Film's premier polemicist Costa-Gavras on his new movie "Amen," the responsibility of artists, and waiting around for history to prove you right.
    By Dimitra Kessenides January 24, 2003

  • Hunting Nazi art online

    Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 16, 2002

  • Rethinking the Nazi nightmare

    Two historians challenge the idea that the Holocaust was unique, describe how anti-Semitism was worse in prewar America than in Germany and compare Hitler & Co. to the '60s generation.
    By Suzy Hansen October 2, 2002
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