World War 2

Expert’s view The writer and journalist chooses her five favourite books about women, fashion and the Second World WarJustine Picardie’s new book, Miss Dior (Faber £25) – about the designer’s sister, a heroine of the Resistance – is out now. Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner (1934)Flanner began writing her “Letter…

Home » Military » Taiwan Needs to Signal Military Resolve Taiwan is considering a 5.6% military budget increase over the 2021 allocation and come to the usual 2.3% of gross domestic product. The new budget is in response to a surge in Chinese activity in or near the Taiwanese air…

The Premier League is among a group of major European leagues that are “firmly and unanimously” against FIFA’s proposals to hold the World Cup every two years. The men’s World Cup has taken place every four years since the inaugural edition in 1930, aside from 1942 and 1946 due to…

Frank de la Rosa’s book, “Beyond Forgetting,” a memoir of life during the Philippine theatre of World War II, is one of those rare peeks into the horrors experienced by civilians. Cookstown, NJ – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, August 31, 2021 The Second World War is often depicted in print and…

This photo taken on June 22, 2021 shows a security guard patrolling the platforms at Bangkok Railway Station, more commonly known as Hua Lamphong, in Bangkok. The vast majority of services of the station at Hua Lamphong will move to a new rail hub on the capital's northern outskirts later…

A Bard College professor has produced a sweeping, revisionist history of the Second World War that places the blame at Russia's doorstep. Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II,…

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The Civil War between Mao’s Communists and Chiang’s Nationalists had been paused during the fight against Japan, but the two sides remained untrusting and antagonistic. Events like the New Fourth Army Incident of January 1942 showed just how easy it was for conflict to re-emerge. Allied leaders had contemplated these…

Despite their terrible human costs—or perhaps because of them—wars are often times of technological innovation. The Napoleonic Wars brought us canned goods; the American Civil War drove the development of submarines. The Second World War, meanwhile, began with biplanes, cavalry charges, and horse-drawn wagons but ended with radar, V2 rockets,…

It is credited with preventing the worst global recession since at least the second world war from turning into something far worse. But after the injection of trillions of dollars into financial markets to cushion the blow from Covid-19, the era of quantitative easing could be coming to an end.…