The protagonists sound like the leads in a Hollywood thriller. There’s the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal, a bloodthirsty concentration-camp doctor whose whereabouts have been unknown since he vanished 46 years ago. And there’s the Brooklyn-bred Jew who has dedicated his life to the global quest for World war II-era mass murderers. The Nazi-hunter, now [...]

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This article is by the MoscowTimes.Com. The signals coming out of Washington are alarming to Russians.
From the article:
For the past eight years, Washington has tried to impose its will to other nations. It has been a failure, reducing, not enhancing, U.S. influence and alarming not only former foes but even close allies. In the process, [...]

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Revisionists say that World war II was unnecessary. They’re wrong.
Historical scholarship has nevertheless offered various sorts of revisionist interpretation of all this. Niall Ferguson, for one, has proposed looking at the two world wars as a single conflict, punctuated only by a long and ominous armistice. British conservative historians like Alan Clark and John Charmley [...]

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This is a fictional account of what could have happened.
The rapid advance of the German army through Belgium and France in May 1940 left hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian troops encircled at the port of Dunkirk in northern France.
But then Hitler ordered a halt to the attack. This gave the British [...]

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As America and its allies focus their diplomatic energy on the Middle East and Afghanistan, China continues to alter the balance of power in East Asia with little fanfare and even less resistance. Consider recent revelations that China has built a massive new naval base in Sanya, on Hainan Island. The strategically located base, which [...]

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Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have surveyed a massive military parade in Moscow’s Red Square a day after the State Duma confirmed Putin in the premiership.
Flag-carriers from a military honour guard led the parade to mark the 63rd anniversary of Russia’s victory over Germany in World war II.
The cadets carried [...]

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History dictates that protecting and maintaining a nation’s industrial base is critical to its national security and to winning wars. This is why taking out an enemy’s manufacturing infrastructure, as America did to Germany and Japan during World war II, is the first step in rendering it defenseless.
Yet today in America, despite the menace of [...]

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In a globalization manifesto, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared that the Internet and other planet-spanning technologies were erasing national boundaries. The world, he said in a 2005 best seller, was flat.
No longer. The global economy appears to be entering an epoch in which governments are reasserting their role in the lives of individuals [...]

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From the invasion of Poland to the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - here’s a guide to the main events of World war Two.
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The causes, events and people of the most destructive war in history.
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World war 2
World war II or the Second World war was a global military [...]

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