World War 2

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.…

An elite Taliban unit released propaganda images this week, including one mocking the iconic World War Two photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. In the propaganda image, the Taliban fighters are shown raising their flag while wearing what appears to be U.S. and U.S. ally-made military gear.…

Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalized workers. To learn more, please visit our timeline as well as our in-depth report on the subject. Call of Duty has been a reliable annual franchise since its launch and this year is no different despite…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 August 2021 / 1,274 Views Publisher and developer Microids announced Syberia: The World Before will launch for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on December 10 for $39.99. It will launch in 2022 for consoles.  A Digital Deluxe Edition is also available for $49.99. It includes the…

Official statistics have exposed the eye-watering scale of the biggest overnight benefits cut since the Second World War, which is due around the start of October Video Loading Video Unavailable PM says people need to "get into work" as he cuts universal credit The £20-a-week Universal Credit cut will hit…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Article content TOKYO — Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here…

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One of my favourite board games of all time is V-Commandos, a co-op World War Two game that’s all about stealth and covert warfare. Now, years later, the team behind that game have taken everything they’ve learned from 1945 and put it to work on something from around 1459 instead:…