David Moore — A Child’s View of WW2 (1939-1945) I was five when my parents called us children in to the best room of the house to hear the declaration of war on the big wireless set. It was Sunday ...

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

Explore the history of WWI and WWII from the spark of the Archduke's assassination to the global shift of the Cold War. Discover the major alliances, key battles and how these conflicts led to the ...

Declaration of War — Dunkirk - Battle of Britain - Bombs on Clydeside — Evacuation - Air Training Corps — Death in the Family — Volunteer for RAF. (cont’d. Part 2) On 9th. May 1939 I celebrated my ...

What on earth were the German people thinking during World War II? How could they support such a dreadful war of aggression? How could they tolerate — or actively support — the extermination of Jews ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

Alanbrooke, the British imperial chief of staff during World War II, permitted a popular historian to publish excerpts from his wartime diaries in the 1950s. Those two volumes -- The Turn of the Tide ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...