There’s not even a real war, not like World War II. It’s all terrorist attacks and retaliation and enemies without borders. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

FAMILY: The girl’s parents are fairly typical Mid- westerners of the World War II generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was a mechanic and a decorated World War II vet who had a gold tooth in his mouth that flashed and sparkled when he smiled, which was often. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For black Americans, the four decades between World War II and the crack boom had been marked by steady and often dramatic improvement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was too old for the sen ice in World War II, but the war did make for a lot of work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After World War II, a “cold war” had begun between the democratic United States and the Communist Soviet Union. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He died in World War II. They never married or had children. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

World War II was largely fought and won in the skies with airplanes that flew faster and did more things than ever before. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

In 1942, in the middle of World War II, some strange letters came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

However, World War II started about then, and I wasn’t able to fly again for a long time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Soviet women had flown as military bomber pilots in World War II, none of the women chosen for the Soviet space program were military pilots. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He called an uncle in Chicago who’d been in combat in World War II and asked if he could come for a visit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She goes on to explain the origins of the pageant and how it went on hiatus during World War II and again when Kennedy was assassinated. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When the Red Army met the invading Germans to fight back, the concentrated force and fury along that line became known as World War II’s Eastern Front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not that I ever believed that the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manip- ulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months behind the Soviet Union, the United States had also entered World War II. The two huge nations, so different from each other, were allied against Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

During World War II, Purple gave the United States and its allies a secret edge in the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, Gold was a twenty-eight-year-old chemist, living with his parents and younger brother in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Oppenheimer and World War II. Salk found a vaccine that prevented polio, and Oppenheimer helped create the bombs that were dropped on Japan and ended the war. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

For over sixty years, the official history of Elizebeth’s World War II unit was buried deep in the “sealed tombs” of the government archives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, as the Devon School’s first recruit to World War II, he went out my doorway with his white stocking cap bobbing behind. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red China after World War II closed its doors to the Western white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After World War II, the government found itself with a tremendous surplus of ammonium nitrate. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, the enormous investments made in nuclear weapons during World War II and in airplanes and trucks during World War I launched whole new fields of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One summer day, three years after the end of World War II, Harry Gold fell in love. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When flying opportunities for women dried up after World War II, Ruth was frustrated but began to think that perhaps space would offer women new flying opportunities. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, he had inherited two thousand dollars from a man whose life he’d saved during World War II. So while he wasn’t rich, he was better off than most of us. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the early months of World War II, San Francisco’s Fillmore district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for World War II, nothing ever interfered with the celebration of National Suicide Day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The young women of the Soviet Union who fought in World War II clung to their feminine identity with consistent determination, and if one single item could represent this individual battle, it’s underwear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After World War II began, the news grew steadily worse. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

These were the largest heavy bomber strikes since World War II, and forced North Vietnam to make concessions at the negotiating table. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In World War II, an extraordinary calculating machine commissioned by the U.S. military, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could, each second, perform around 350 multiplications or 5,000 simple additions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From this rich tradition of aviation attention science—dating back to World War II—there grew a new field. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, mobility, which once buoyed the working lives of Americans as it rose in the decades after World War II, has lately flattened out or possibly even declined, many researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After World War II, business soared at Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque, along with the economy of southern California. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

She ended by saying that we’d already had a woman president during World War II. That Eleanor Roosevelt ran the country when her husband, the president, was sick. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The lobby was decorated with World War II posters reminding citizens of the importance of secrecy in times of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Second, that caused America to enter World War II. And third, more than 110,000 Nikkei—mostly American citizens—living on the West Coast had been imprisoned in ten different places, for no good reason. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He rarely spoke about what we had gone through during World War II. He continued to be the center of my mother's world. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The full scale of World War II still surprises people today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

By the time World War II began, Gold had given the Soviets every bit of useful information the Pennsylvania Sugar Company had in its files. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within forty-eight hours, England and France declared war on Germany, and World War II officially began. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

World War II started on a Sunday afternoon when I was on my way to the movies. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality— hopes were dying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, sure, in World War II movies and in books about the Nazis and the Holocaust. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even before World War II, Hoover had wanted his G-men to become the chief spy hunters in the Americas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Soviet name for the fight to drive the German army out of their nation during World War II is the “Great Patriotic War.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered if England had paid attention to everything France had to say during World War II. I didn’t think so—they were allies, not buddies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This defense seemed to me to belong to an earlier time, before World War II, when higher education could ensure positions of social power and prominence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got mad we tended to cause problems... like World War II, for instance. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you an Allied leader in World War II?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With World War II almost on the horizon, Elizebeth’s work was about to become more secret—and more demanding—than ever before. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then it was a dormitory for soldiers during World War II, and later the Transit Authority used it for storage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t have been any women’s aviation organizations during World War II if not for the driving forces of individual people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Yet since 1939, he had been fighting one of the hardest battles of World War II. His fearsome opponent? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Kimball lectured on World War II, the screen showed rows of fighter planes interspersed with the skeletal remains of bombed cities. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He was in World War II, and some days you could really tell he was still dealin’ with it, because he’d lock himself in the bedroom all day. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In addition to being one of the most significant battles of World War II, it was probably the biggest battle in history. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Before the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito finally told the Japanese people that he was not of divine descent, Japanese archaeologists and historians had to make their interpretations conform to this account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mechanic and a decorated World War II vet who had a gold tooth in his mouth that flashed and sparkled when he smiled, which was often. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The F.B.I. not long ago released a report of a shocking rise in crime each successive year since the end of World War II—ten to twelve per cent each year. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad peppered him with history questions until they made it to World War II, and then they moved into an analytical discussion of wartime tactics. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Look what they did after World War II,” he said, getting up on one elbow. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to auxiliary fuel tanks and slender, ultraefficient Davis wings, it could fly literally all day, a decisive asset in the sprawling World War II theaters. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lasher had been in World War II and had fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The game of choice: Call of Duty, World War II, which really bothered his parents. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a helipad with a “Channel Five Fort Lauderdale” helicopter on it, and a short runway with a Learjet and a propeller plane that looked like a World War II fighter. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, when many American men had either gone to war or were working in industries that produced equipment for the war, there was a shortage of farm labor,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,1939, and launched the start of World War II, Dasch decided his duty was to his native country. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I forget who fought in World War II. I can’t name more than ten presidents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Coming forward as winners from World War II, a modern America began to emerge. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The disassembled missiles were lashed to the decks of cargo ships—including, ironically, many American-made vessels that had been given to the Soviet Union during World War II, when the two nations were allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The start of World War II was not the climax to our life in Ocean Park. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

August 14, 1945: Japan surrendered, ending World War II. I didn’t get to the third one because at that moment I heard a rifle shot, followed by my mother hollering, “Jack!Jack!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

More people were killed in World War II than in any war in history. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, naturally, on May 7, which was the anniversary of the German surrender in World War II, Mr. Nossik dressed himself up as a Gestapo kommissar. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The valiant, critical battles of World War II flashed through his mind. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The story begins twenty-six years earlier, as World War II came to an end and the Cold War began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

During World War II, many Coalwood miners, including my father, were exempted from service because of the need for coal in the war effort. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The “Big Three” gods—Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades—had made a pact after World War II not to have any more children with mortals. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of continuing to work on our research projects, he pops in a documentary about World War II, which we’ve already covered. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We recruited Jack Hodgson, who had fought in World War II and was a member of the Springbok Legion, and Rusty Bernstein, both party members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

World War II wasn’t over, and she had more code-breaking battles to win. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the days of World War II receded into memory, so did the notion that riveters and gas station attendants and munitions experts and, yes, even mathematicians would, or even should, be female. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was born in the middle of World War II. From earliest awareness, my mother’s stories always timely, I watched for three airplanes parting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When World War II started in 1939, looking ahead, Jackie had asked Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, for help to create a program to train American women pilots for ferry flights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While Smuts had enlisted South Africa on the side of the Allies in World War II, the National Party refused to support Great Britain and publicly sympathized with Nazi Germany. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one decade passed into another, I put my World War II experiences even further behind me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But the end of World War II brought cutbacks at Sparrows Point. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On August 14, 1945, the very same day that World War II ended, an American citizen and Soviet spy named Elizabeth Bentley cautiously approached the front door of the FBI offices in New Haven, Connecticut. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Milkman was dressed in World War II army fatigues with a knit cap on his head, they opened some Falstaff beer and began to talk about guns. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost demolished during World War II on account of my seeming Japanese. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

White Southerners could ignore the groundswell of discontent, but, especially following World War II, blacks were simply not going to tolerate a life separate from and unequal to the American mainstream. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although the two countries had fought on the same side during World War II, their relationship deteriorated in the years afterward. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He suggested I see Dr. Wessey, who once did a paper on War Trade Agreements during World War II. He might be able to help me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another war came, World War II, and I wanted to get in it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ivanov pointed out to Eltenton that the Americans and Soviets were allies in World War II, but the Soviets were the ones doing the fighting against Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Full-Scale Tunnel, the linchpin of the lab’s World War II drag cleanup work, continued to test everything from low-speed aircraft designed with delta wings to helicopters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In late 1941, as the United States teetered on the edge of joining World War II, code breakers were in huge demand—especially top talent like Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the end of World War II, Los Angeles was the second-largest manufacturing center in America, with an industrial output surpassed only by that of Detroit. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

This prompted the chairman, World War II hero General Omar Bradley, to declare that “if it can be done ... it would be intolerable to have us sit on our butts.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Reading for the first time about the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II, he went on to lecture about it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When the United States entered World War II, he tried to enlist as a navy pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But we had no time to learn—after only a few months, Hitler began the series of invasions that led to World War II. It was no longer safe for us to stay in France. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

After World War II, when the jet age started, I was a student in college, at West Point. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad moved on from World War II to the United Nations, the European Union, and the imminent destruction of the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Wes spent his earliest years in the Cherry Hill Apartments, a planned construction built after World War II to provide housing to returning black veterans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He talked about how black GIs during World War II had more freedoms when stationed in Germany than back in the country they fought for. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There is a dreary chain of causality: The Germans were working on the bomb at the beginning of World War II; so the Americans had to make one first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a Quonset hut. They had a lot of them left over after World War II. Some of the citrus farmers bought ’em up cheap, as war surplus.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the modern map of Eastern Europe and the Cold War’s course would have been significantly different if Hitler had indeed been killed and if World War II had ended then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop’s good leg is propped up on the couch, while his World War II one dangles off the edge. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had fought for South Africa during World War II in North Africa and Italy, but after his return, a white bureaucrat had reclassified him as African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“E. O. Lawrence personally never quite demobilized after the end of World War II,” the Rad Lab physicist Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky would observe many years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My Opa—sorry, again, grandpa—had it from World War II. He was a pilot.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in World War II. But that’s because they were fighting common enemies—not because they liked each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress because it killed millions of birds, fish, and amphibians after World War II, the insecticide called DDT was still being used in South America. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nazi spies had been captured on American soil in 1938, and people were worried that more spies were lurking undercover now that World War II had started in Europe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then World War II intervened and Oppenheimer himself became closely involved in the atom bomb project. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since World War II, one brick after another had been pried from the walls of segregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Derek had been a fighter pilot in World War II, where he flew Hurricanes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the years leading into World War II, and during the war, it was much more common for women to be involved in aviation than it is even now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After World War II, most of the world’s financial systems were on their last legs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If you’d asked me about Nazi Germany, I would have remembered swastikas on tanks and airplanes from World War II movies. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

During World War II, Bill Harvey fought his battles on the home front, leading counterespionage campaigns against the Abwehr, spies that Hitler sent across the Atlantic to sabotage the American war effort. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had been on such a ship during World War II, sailing from Cyprus to Egypt. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He said Jewish bankers in Europe had signed secret agreements to start World War II, and that they had colluded with Jews in America to pay for it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He spoke with a foreign accent, the same accent that the German soldiers always had in World War II movies. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have looked through my father’s World War II scrapbook many times; I have seen Vietnam on television; I have ingested countless movies about Ancient Rome or the battles of the Middle Ages. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is a reaction comparable to the way Americans might respond to someone who told them that World War II started in the Pacific after an American sneak attack on Tokyo harbor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Just after World War II, beginning in the Baltic port city of Danzig and spreading through central Europe, there was an epidemic of PCP that claimed the lives of thousands of small children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Branwell wrote about the Four Freedoms of World War II: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine World War II and the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy, but with water instead of weapons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They recalled the Treaty of Versailles and how its harsh policies had led to World War II. They feared another harsh treaty could lead to another war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other people—unused to telephones all their lives until immediately after World War II when the present system was installed—still, some twenty-odd years later, automatically answered anything that gave off an urgent blast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this evening in the middle of World War II, a serenade is about to begin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“So the last ones, in World War II...did they make it through the Kingdom of Death and get to the celestial weapons?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The conventional bombs of World War II were called blockbusters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was talking, of course, about stopping the Nazis in World War II, but that’s not what I was hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin’s World War II books—a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Blake was not a particularly religious man, though going to church did make him nostalgic for his Protestant upbringing in Holland before World War II. Now, however, his interest in religion was mostly strategic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Because of that, the Big Three had taken an oath after World War II not to have any more kids. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then World War II faded with the lights of the projector. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When returning black soldiers demanded equal rights following World War II, the Klan’s popularity once again increased. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled the little girl I'd seen in Ishtar's World War II memory. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But World War II was of magnitude 7.7: some fifty million military personnel and noncombatants were killed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The onset of World War II and a number of internal scandals once again laid the Klan low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Siberian city had several huge public buildings, monuments from World War II, a reputable university and medical school, and some factories that provided decent jobs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One of these pioneers was Anne Taylor, who was a little more than five years old when World War II started and the bombs rained down. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He talked on and on about the models his grandfather had given him, pointing out every little detail of his prized World War II fighter jet and the ugly army-green one, a bomber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At Sandringham, we were taught more about World War II thanthe typical black kids in the townships were, but only in a basic way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s their dad,” I said, “but Bianca and Nico have been out of commission for a long time, since even before World War II.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many of these women, but they paved the way for Marina Raskova and for the next generation—the generation that would fight in World War II twenty-five years later. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With World War II over, France wanted its old colony back. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of Veveniy Savitsky, the deputy commander of the Soviet Air Defense and a World War II pilot, so people liked to say that her father’s position opened doors for her. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, the SS spy agency in Berlin made him their top man in South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1941, thirty-eight countries were involved in World War II, and it looked as though Hitler might win Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To win World War II, the United States needed to recruit thousands of new code breakers, and the majority of the hires were female—about eleven thousand women in all. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But it was World War II that transformed southern California into the most important economic region in the West. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

It wiggles, while the World War II one stands motionless. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Would Mrs. G. have smiled so patronizingly at the Enigma codebreakers during World War II who were trying to figure out how to stop Nazi subs from sinking Allied ships? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Second grade was most notable in my mind for the adventures of Laura, but we also had World War II. The kids all brought newspapers to school and, once a month, cans of food. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d made a point of including the Tuskegee Airmen, the history-making African American pilots and ground crews who fought in World War II, among his guests. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, the people of Norway wore paper clips on their clothes as a protest against the Nazis,” Mr. Brademas puts in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Byrdsong was a Newport News native who served in World War II in the Montford Point Marines, the first group of black men permitted to join that previously restricted branch of the American military. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

During World War II, there was an American fighter pilot who was killed flying a Spitfire at the age of nineteen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the pride Americans had felt in the Big Science that had won World War II was draining away at the spectacle of multimillion-dollar rockets exploding in flight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Back then, while World War II was going on, whenever one of our hens would lay a bad egg we’d mark it with an “H”—for Hitler. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

World War II was well along before there was a noticeable change in the economy of that near-forgotten hamlet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he borrowed a forgotten technique from World War II and used lighting systems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Forcing female soldiers to wear men’s boots isn’t unique to the Red Army in World War II. Combat boots in women’s sizes for British soldiers were introduced in the United Kingdom only in 2012. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No. My steady was the World War II vet, dead of heart disease. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Five months after Carl bought the cart, the United States entered World War II, and the Goodyear plant became very busy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I was particularly affected by a documentary we saw about the great naval battles of World War II, which showed newsreel footage of the sinking of the H.M.S. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few years after World War II, several black families bought houses in a whites-only Birmingham community, and the racial lines became blurred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

George Blake had entered adulthood as a warrior against Nazism and emerged from World War II an English soldier and patriot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mediocre American aircraft industry of the 1930s rose to preeminence because of the challenge of World War II. What would it take for the country to prevail against this latest threat? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He talked of the pacifist views he’d held before World War II. He talked of his love of world travel and the environment and college football. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal had a kilo of sugar cane and a defunct World War II handgun in his backpack. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After World War II, Wernher Von Braun, the leader of this effort, came to the United States with some of his experts and began building rockets in this country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A World War II veteran who had served in Europe, McKissick, like so many other black soldiers, returned home with increased expectations for equality only to run headfirst into continued discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The start of World War II had made it tough to get an appointment with the president, but he’d finally made it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He and his brother worked on a top secret project to make the atom bomb during World War II.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In July 1945, toward the end of World War II, American soldiers parachuted into North Vietnam with orders to find and to help Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He had served as supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War II and had witnessed firsthand the destruction of Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the Soviet Union entered World War II in 1941, Marina Raskova took command of a thousand female aviators and trained them to fly in three separate bomber and fighter regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Once Japanese banks, now Korean independent banks after World War II had ended. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

World War II had just ended, and Greece was in ruins. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

However, the greatest growth and development occurred during and after World War II and was founded upon automobiles. In Los Angeles, Ditching the Car for an Eco-Friendly Trip 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

During World War II, Roland registered as a conscientious objector, was sent to prison and wrote a manifesto called The Idea of Freedom. Ginger & Rosa: Best Friends. Forever? 2013-03-15T20:02:09Z

In World War II, the British War Office had a contract with Penguin Books to make paperback editions of “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” that could fit in soldier’s pockets. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Gehry proposed a memorial park with statues of the president and World War II hero, framed by large metal tapestries depicting Ike's boyhood home in Kansas. Bill would block Frank Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial 2013-03-13T22:28:43Z

The centenarian has lived in D.C. for the past 98 years — he spent his early childhood in South Carolina — and fought overseas in World War II after being drafted in 1942 and serving until 1945. 105-year-old WWII veteran and former Secret Service officer reveals his secret to longevity 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

They remained untouched by the Renaissance and Baroque eras and even World War II, when Allied forces bombed only the train station. Ravenna, Italy, Glittering Still 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

As they retrace the crime, doggedly uprooting the past, exploring darkened cellars and confronting unwelcome bright faces, they exorcise personal demons, and the long shadow of World War II closes in on them. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The earlier novel depicted a primal showdown between newly returned World War II veteran Chip Mackinnon and his wealthy manipulative father. ‘All the Dead Yale Men’: a family’s legacy of troubles 2013-07-05T16:43:42Z

Patton George C. Scott refused the Oscar he was awarded for his 1970 performance as the controversial World War II general. Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'The Fault in Our Stars' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Sketches of Rockefeller Center reliefs were rolled up in plans for elephant murals, and correspondence about World War II portable altarpieces was stashed in a trunk. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z

After World War II, he moved to New York City, and later to Hollywood, where he was a contract actor for Universal Studios, according to the obituary. Actor James Best, 'Dukes of Hazzard' sheriff, dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The author of a highly praised trilogy on World War II discusses the third in the series, “The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945.” The Week Ahead: Beer tasting, Viking Fest, Rick Atkinson 2014-05-07T22:17:13Z

“This was one of the handful of the most influential social science papers produced since World War II and ironically it’s a fraud,” Scull said. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

It describes the dislocation brought on by World War II: men and women leaving their homes and drifting into packed train stations. Making “Manhattan Beach” 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Against these forces — the banal and the diabolical alike — “It” assembles a squad of early and preadolescent ghostbusters as varied as an infantry platoon in a World War II combat picture. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

It took NBC 26 episodes to cover just the maritime campaigns of World War II in the 1952 documentary “Victory at Sea.” ‘The World Wars,’ on History, Links Evens Across 30 Years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

This book recounts travels through China and the Caribbean during World War II, when Gellhorn was a reporter for Collier’s magazine. Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "disarmament is part of the DNA of the United Nations" which was formed after nuclear weapons were used for the first and last time against Japan in World War II. Actor Michael Douglas says the winning posters in a global competition to commemorate the first UN General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The city was reduced to rubble in World War I and occupied by the Nazis and battered by Allied bombings in World War II. Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows 2012-12-04T18:46:05Z

During World War II, Mr. Robinson was a corporal stationed in Hawaii in charge of hiring entertainment, from big bands to a one-footed tap dancer. Bobby Robinson, Harlem Music Impresario, Dies at 93 2011-01-12T05:12:52Z

His father was a copper miner who moved the family to Southern California when the end of World War II eased the demand for the mineral. Emigdio Vasquez, pioneer in Chicano art movement, dies at 75

Long before World War II, Josef Stalin orchestrated the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the man-made famine known as the Holodomor. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Before World War II, travel across state and county lines was uncommon. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a milestone as the generation of leaders born before the end of World War II passes — and, with it, the old-school conception of the commanding, protecting maestro. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

Hoffman won plaudits, including an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor, for his performance as the leader of a religious cult who recruits a World War II veteran played by Joaquin Phoenix in The Master. WATCH: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 7 Greatest Movie Roles 2014-02-02T21:20:19Z

“No Place on Earth”: A documentary about 38 Ukrainian Jews who survived World War II by living in caves for 18 months. Boats and food trucks | Weekend Preview 2013-05-01T21:00:27Z

He spent two periods of study in St. Paul Seminary, with a stint in the Marines just after World War II between them. 2010-02-16T05:29:00Z

In the Army during World War II he created camouflage, experimenting with various materials to build scale models of the finished products, which were meant to conceal things like airfields and gun emplacements. Peter J. Hall, Costumer for Opera, Theater, Dies at 84 2010-06-10T05:00:00Z

Will a detour to the front lines of World War II make the F.B.I. and the vampires temporary allies? 10 New Comic Books for the Fall 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The appeal of the tank crews in particular is that "they were the tip of the tip of the spear" during World War II, Ayer said. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Eisenmenger’s career continued after World War II. When the Vienna State Opera — which had been heavily damaged by bombings — reopened in 1955 after a major redevelopment, Eisenmenger was selected to design its safety curtain. An Opera House Gives Contemporary Art a Major Role 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Set in 1945, “Shambling Towards Hiroshima” reveals the secret of the hush-hush Project Knickerbocker: To bring World War II to an end, the U.S. Science fiction: ‘The Madonna and the Starship,’ by James Morrow

Etiquette and pageantry excuse the characters from dealing honestly with matters of the heart, and perhaps even blind them to the encroaching darkness of World War II. What Makes a French Comedy One of the Greatest Films of All Time? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

She touchingly portrays a World War II wife, facing complicated emotions as her husband returns home. Myrna Loy 'a wonderful companion' for biographer Emily Leider 2012-08-01T20:26:05Z

His father was often absent during World War II to fight in the Greek resistance as the German Army advanced. In Athens, the Last Man Painting 2014-02-26T22:55:35Z

In 1945, as World War II drew to a close, his family fled to Berlin. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“During World War II, things were scarce and I remember the family would get the Sunday paper,” Ms Spencer said. The Chic Octogenarian Behind Barbie’s Best Looks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

The first Scripps National Bee was held in 1925; because of the pandemic, it was canceled last year for the first time since World War II. How Indian Americans Came to Love the Spelling Bee 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

He served in the Army during World War II and studied art in Mexico on the G.I. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z

She had arrived in France in the aftermath of World War II to a nation that was still reeling from rations and riots. The Roots of Joan Mitchell’s Greatness 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Presley gave Nixon a commemorative World War II Colt .45 mounted in a display case, and Nixon admired Presley’s cuff links. Review: In ‘Elvis & Nixon,’ Michael Shannon Holds Court as the King 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

He was conscripted by the Hungarian Army during World War II and, he said, deserted in 1943 and spent the rest of the war living underground in Budapest. Egon Ronay, Publisher of Food Guides, Dies at 94 2010-06-15T03:53:00Z

Set in Berlin, "Cabaret" centers on the world of the indulgent Kit Kat Klub on the brink of World War II. Broadway revival of 'Cabaret' is being considered 2013-04-25T20:00:21Z

International music history in particular can make an important contribution to a critical assessment of Austria’s role in National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust. The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

At one point, Russell describes the Wehrmacht, the term commonly applied to Germany’s armed forces during World War II, as “the Dutch equivalent of the Nazi SS.” ‘The Train to Crystal City’: a WWII detainees camp in Texas 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

He concluded that “the democratic engine that powered World War II successfully, if maddeningly and ploddingly, was fueled by the politics of self-interest.” William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

He was a working musician in his own right by the outbreak of World War II. John Bunch, Pianist With Goodman and Bennett, Dies at 88 2010-04-01T22:21:00Z

Mr. Brodie was a staff artist at The San Francisco Chronicle when he enlisted in the Army during World War II. Howard Brodie, 94, Combat and Courtroom Artist, Dies 2010-09-24T05:19:00Z

Kupchan correctly identifies America’s entry into World War II as a turning point. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

“He’s lived through so many pivotal periods and places,” including World War II and Tunisian independence — moving constantly, from Tunisia to France to the United States. Jonah Bokaer at World Nomads: Tunisia 2013-05-08T21:40:32Z

Rutherfurd takes it up a notch in the last part of the book, which is set in occupied Paris during World War II. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z

The death of the much-loved Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002 revived memories of World War II, a time of common purpose in which the royal family served as a unifying symbol. After jubilee success, monarchy faces the future 2012-06-05T19:08:17Z

Their place is a short walk from the Musée d’Orsay, where the works will one day be on display — the largest foreign donation to France since World War II. How France Won the Hearts, and the Art, of 2 American Collectors 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But the Finnish tango did not emerge until after World War II. Music Review: Avanti! Ensemble in Finnish Works at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-04T22:30:17Z

But you notice that when Baker wrote his book about World War II, Human Smoke, he stuck to primary sources only, and left himself out of it as much as possible. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

Standing by the bar in a tuxedo, he greeted guests at the 75th anniversary of the landmark red sauce joint on West 56th Street founded by his father, Pasquale, during World War II. Patsy’s, a Rat Pack Redoubt, Turns 75 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

American heavy bombers in World War II, he wrote, hit only 3 percent of their European targets effectively, while tens of thousands of servicemen died in Army aircraft accidents. William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

At first, Munch was renowned for supporting new music, and during World War II, he made his allegiances clear by protecting and promoting French composers. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The Man in the High Castle,” about a parallel universe in which the Germans and the Japanese won World War II, is in its second season on Amazon. Anne R. Dick, Memoirist and Writer’s Muse, Is Dead at 90 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

But with her husband having served overseas through World War II, what she really relished was the companionship. When first ladies meet: An awkward post-election White House tradition 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Startling images appear throughout “Apocalypse ’45,” a transfixing documentary that depicts the final months of World War II in rare detail. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Upstairs is a small museum displaying the work of well-known Washington state artists, including a section dedicated to the art and stories of local Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. 5 detours to try on the way to Mount Rainier before winter ends 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

He took command of the house, only the fourth designer since Christian Dior founded the company right after World War II. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z

Her extensive knowledge of aircraft, combat and World War II is readily apparent, but isn't heavy-handed. 'The Girl in the Blue Beret': Bobbie Ann Mason's exquisite novel of war and remembrance 2011-07-06T22:21:05Z

The description of the movie pretty much says it all: Towards the end of World War II the Nazi scientists made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. Space Nazi comedy "Iron Sky" coming to theaters 2011-05-17T23:18:00Z

Matsuoka was angered by accounts in her country's textbooks that whitewashed the crimes committed by Japan's Imperial Army during World War II. New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape 2010-03-31T14:16:00Z

A marked departure from Gerritsen's past work, this expertly plotted thriller combines a combustible mix of contemporary family drama with the history of Europe during World War II, built around a mysterious musical score. Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is a well-plotted thriller 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Captain America was first thought up to help encourage patriotic feeling during World War II. Chris Evans 'to play Captain America' 2010-03-23T13:06:00Z

The book, an all-enveloping and mesmerizing social panorama, continues Mr. Kynaston’s grand project of chronicling everyday life in Britain from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Thatcher era. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

OMGs first formed after World War II, as subcultures that promoted nonconformity and the outlaw life. The other “1 percent”: A guide to the racist, sexist bikers who fatally clashed in Waco 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

And just before and during World War II, he worked as an American spy, helping to uncover atomic secrets in Europe. Summer 2018 Movie Release Schedule 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

In 1951, Wouk became a major literary star with the release of “The Caine Mutiny,” for which Wouk was compared to other World War II novelists: Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones. Herman Wouk, a consummate writer until the end, dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

During World War II, the federal government propagated the misguided notion that taking vitamins would make up for the deficiencies caused by food processing and help the nation defend itself from invasion. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

They’ve brought their own research, too: Mr. Pullman’s father was a Navy surgeon in World War II, and he also based his “Healing Wars” character on Dr. Richard Jadick, a Navy surgeon in Iraq. Liz Lerman’s ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage in Washington 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Otto’s work grew out of a time of scarcity after World War II, when a shortage of construction materials encouraged him to innovate. Frei Otto, Architect Who Found Inspiration in a Post-War Shortage, Dies at 89 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

With their parents, who were Orthodox Jews, the boys moved frequently during World War II before being drafted for national service as coal miners. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Two of St. Clair’s uncles fought in World War II, as did his father, who wound up making the Army a career. Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers

But this book’s characters do not control their own destinies, as World War II looms and each day brings new perils. Books of The Times: Destinies Found and Lost in Julie Orringer?s ?Invisible Bridge? 2010-05-19T22:08:00Z

During World War II, 85 percent of Warsaw was burned to the ground, the Royal Castle included. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z

The World War II film "Fury" fell to third in its second weekend. 'Ouija' scares up $20 million in opening weekend; 'John Wick' No. 2 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

World War II brought a bigger set of challenges. Cheap Tickets Are the Best Tickets at the Proms 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

I mean, the puzzling thing for me about World War II's position in the United Kingdom is, at the extreme right-wing end you literally get British fascists doing Hitler salutes next to a war memorial. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

For good measure we also offer a couple of World War II thrillers, one fiction and one non, and deep dives into French food, Israeli politics and the roots of environmentalism. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Some of Atkinson’s finest writing in this novel is devoted to the horrors of the Blitz and World War II. ‘Life After Life’: One woman’s story, told and retold 2013-04-03T23:20:06Z

“Operation Chastise,” about the so-called Dambusters raid, carries the subtitle “The RAF’s Most Brilliant Attack of World War II.” The Real Story of the Royal Air Force’s World War II ‘Dambusters’ Raid 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

It came as that restored World War II patrol torpedo boat dangled over the edge of the Mississippi River from the arm of a huge floating crane. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The wall was transformed into a memorial for war victims of the last century, starting with Waters’ own father, who died in World War II. Concert review: Roger Waters, 'The Wall' at Wrigley Field 2012-06-09T06:30:00Z

Her father, Harry, was a government scientist who supervised development of the proximity fuse for ordnance during World War II. Her mother, the former Ida Epstein, was a Lithuanian immigrant and a homemaker. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Colescott, who, after serving in World War II, was dissuaded from studying international relations because of his race, turned to art, which he injected with fierce and funny allusions to injustice, sex, and history. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

While “The Social Network,” with its pop psychological scrutiny of a still aborning tech phenomenon, points forward, “The King’s Speech” looks back toward World War II and has an international following. Carpetbagger: ?King?s Speech? Leads Oscar Nominations 2011-01-25T17:17:25Z

What would have been their third opera, “Der Fall Hans W.,” about a children’s euthanasia clinic during World War II, was ultimately abandoned by its co-commissioners, the Salzburg Festival and Paris National Opera. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

He spent the final year of World War II at a base in Brooklyn, N.Y., playing the harp on Armed Forces radio. Druzinsky: CSO harpist known as a dedicated musician 2011-01-10T19:12:00Z

After World War II in the 1940s, the National Football League ordered the song played before all its games. Perspective | The national anthem reminds us how much Americans need to work together 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

What America didn’t lack in the 1950s was industrial capability, engineering know-how and World War II logistical experience. Dreaming Up Disneyland 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

As World War II breaks out, the studio becomes a refuge for all manner of exiles — actors, writers, émigrés. 13 New Books Coming in August 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Sitaraman believes the election of Trump ushered in “a new era in politics — the third since the Great Depression and World War II.” Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

After World War II, food companies began unloading packaged food products developed for wartime use on the domestic market: frozen fish fillets, powdered coffee, tinned spinach. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was written in the thick of World War II action, in the besieged city of Leningrad, by which name it is known. Too few hands applaud Gerard Schwarz's powerful return 2012-04-27T17:03:04Z

I just reread Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Little Virtues,” a collection of essays that quietly circles around the darkness of World War II and the death of her husband in prison. 11 popular authors discuss the books that are helping them cope 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

At about the age of 50, during World War II, he shook off his melancholy and revived the ecstatic transcendentalism of his youth. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z

Of all the alternate histories available to writers and producers with active imaginations, perhaps none is more tempting — or depressing — than the fiction of an Allied defeat in World War II. What if Hitler won? ‘Man in the High Castle’ can’t match tantalizing premise. 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

After World War II, his schooling completed, Mr. Jonas worked in radio broadcasting in Budapest. George Jonas, Whose Book Was the Basis of the Film ‘Munich,’ Dies at 80 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The museum was founded in 2000 as the D-Day Museum and in 2004 was designated by Congress as the official World War II museum of the United States. National World War II Museum gets $20-million gift 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Just after World War II, a young man sails from Shanghai to San Francisco. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942, became a radio operator and flew many supply missions over the Himalayas from India to China during World War II. Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Even during World War II, the main house, an elegant pile of honey-colored limestone, remained busy as a refuge for schoolboys evacuated from a seaside town in Kent for fear of invasion. The Mansion Is Closed Because of Covid. No One Told the Deer. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

After World War II he finds his calling as an oilman but ignores his wife and children; after hitting it big, he sees how spoiled and smug his kids have become. Movie Review: ‘The Ultimate Life’ Shows What Money Can and Cannot Buy 2013-09-06T03:53:55Z

“It was the e-book version of World War II,” Mr. King said. Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome,’ Adapted for a TV Series 2013-06-22T16:14:50Z

Kaneto Shindo’s “Children of Hiroshima” was released in Japan in 1952, when the memories of World War II and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh and painful. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z

Back in World War II, if they would have had the media embedded then, there would have been so many war criminals. Read the Full Interview With American Sniper Chris Kyle That Didn't Make it to Press 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

When she was 9, her father, a railway worker, died of complications of combat wounds he had suffered in Burma during World War II. Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian Novelist, Dies at 72 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

We learn that Rosa Klebb’s knife-wielding shoes in “From Russia With Love” were based on similar shoes used by a British agent during World War II; one pair is on display. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z

De Gaulle in London offers walking tours in English and French that follow the footsteps of Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill and other figures of World War II. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to the Glen, a mammoth Gothic folly implanted in a deep valley near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders. Emma Tennant, Who Wrote Beyond the Fringe of Realism, Dies at 79 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

“I don’t want to say, ‘Oh, you like World War II historical novels, let’s pile on a bunch more of those,” she says. Review | What should you read next? For thousands, the person to ask is Anne Bogel. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

At a pivotal moment in World War II, Allied forces are stranded on a French beach at Dunkirk. Could One of These Four Screenplays Win the Oscar? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

In one sequence, Sandra serves as a translator for an audience of American World War II veterans, mirror images of her father and grandmother, whom she later visits. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ike Patch attended Amherst College in Massachusetts but dropped out before enlisting in the Navy in January 1941, nearly a year before the Pearl Harbor attack, which led to U.S. entry into World War II. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies

We were told that 80 percent of the country is covered by mountains; that many of the Norwegian ports were destroyed during World War II; and that Norway discovered oil off its coast in 1969. Exploring the land of the Vikings by boat 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Between 1910 and World War II, Corbett, a colonel in the British Indian Army, was regularly called upon to hunt tigers that had turned into serial killers, and he usually stalked them alone on foot. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

I think it's still mainly horses in World War II. I know there's still some pigeons being used, but I think in the main, it would horses. "All Creatures Great and Small" writer on bringing "bittersweet" comforts of WWII to the Dales 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

World War II had only recently ended, and Taylor suspected that the painting might have been among artworks uprooted during the war. A Portrait of Rembrandt Goes on Show. But Did He Paint It? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

But by the end of World War II Graham had become a bit of a curmudgeon. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z

The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven’s sober, well-made World War II melodrama, “Winter in Wartime,” is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z

Enjoy miles of beach, nature trails, disc golf and World War II observation towers with 360-degree views. Brew and beach time warm the soul in Delaware’s Dogfishland 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

This lodge has changed hands many times; during World War II, it was a place where pilots’ goggles were made. An Effort to Save J.M.W. Turner’s Country House 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Eisenhower plotted his D-Day strategy here during World War II, as Commander of the Armed Forces. | The Empire Strikes Back 2012-03-15T18:53:51Z

Incidentally, the star did few TV interviews as he promoted his World War II tank film, which opened last week. Brad Pitt spits in Galifianakis' face during 'Between Two Ferns' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Bombers and torpedo planes will be the stars of the latest expansion of the National World War II Museum, and visitors will be able to get close-up views of the war planes on elevated catwalks. War planes to be the star in WWII museum expansion 2010-08-26T19:19:00Z

You mention that this World War II story is less ambiguous as far as we agree who the bad guys were. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

The David Ayer-directed film took in $23.5 million in one of the best openings ever for a World War II movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Box Office: Brad Pitt and 'Fury' Take No. 1 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

In retirement, he flies volunteers as a medical transport pilot with AngelFlight, missions he says are as rewarding to him as those he flew in World War II. Still flying at 97: Autobiography recounts WWII pilot’s life 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

There is a new musical, “Allegiance,” about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and a stripped-down revival, “The Color Purple,” about the difficulties of black women in rural Georgia of the 1930s. This Broadway Season, Diversity Is Front and Center 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

They came along at a time, right after World War II, no one was ever that anarchic. | 'Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis': ?Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis? on Encore ? Review 2011-12-17T00:27:42Z

He’s got both of his parents’ books stacked under a soccer trophy, and a little frame Plame made him with his grandfather’s World War II medals. Valerie Plame, America’s most famous ex-spy, finds her new identity 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Upon joining the military during World War II, he was sent to learn Chinese. May 27 at SIFF: 'The Revolutionary' 2012-05-25T19:40:27Z

After World War II, he returned to Europe, and though never officially a member of the Communist Party, his Marxist leanings prompted that boycott of his work in Austria from 1953 to 1963. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

“The war,” as World War II is invariably referred to here, has long been a central part of Britain’s national myth, a time when, backs to the wall, Britons kept calm and carried on. A German Comedian in London: Working Out the War in Punch Lines 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“It took Chris three years of persistent pestering of one captain to allow us to shoot on a World War II submarine.” They Remade ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ Here’s Why. 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jourdan, who died Feb. 14 at 93, arrived in the United States after World War II as the promised heir to Charles Boyer, the French-born romantic idol who was transitioning into character roles. Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

A dying World War II torpedo plane pilot with a dark secret. Review: Doc Ford returns in `Night Moves' thriller 2013-03-04T21:31:07Z

The story of a young Viennese girl arrested by the Germans who becomes a violinist in an orchestra of Auschwitz concentration camp inmates, it's set both during World War II and in postwar England. John Lawton, British mystery writer, talks about 'A Lily of the Field' and Inspector Troy 2010-10-15T20:57:00Z

It was the headquarters of France’s Navy for more than 200 years and, during World War II, of a division of Nazi Germany’s. Stripping Away History’s Layers, and Revealing a New Museum 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

It took on a crucial role in public life with the onset of World War II, when the service brought Churchill's famous speeches to the airwaves. BBC under pressure to restore trust after scandal 2012-11-11T20:32:10Z

The modern American wine industry that arose after World War II is rooted in commerce and entrepreneurship rather than cultural tradition. How the Internet Has Left Its Mark on Terroir 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Standing on the city's famous medieval covered bridge - the Ponte Vecchio - he began to contemplate how so many famous sites and works of art in Europe survived the destruction of World War II. Texas man's mission: Honoring WWII Monuments Men 2013-05-09T20:02:14Z

A song set in Teigh is about a World War II rector jailed for being a Fascist. Finding Songs Hidden in Britain’s Thankful Villages 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

If you want to read only one book about World War II, this is the one. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books

What is known is that she studied to be a teacher at Arkansas State College and worked as a riveter in a defense plant in Chicago during World War II. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

Case in point: German Americans suffered some retaliation in different parts of the U.S. during World War II, especially Lutheran Germans. Fear, hysteria and patriotism 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

He served in the Army during World War II, part of the time in Guam, monitoring American radio transmissions for security violations. John Ferrone, Editor of Eclectic Stable of Writers, Dies at 91 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

During World War II, he served overseas while Ms. Wain performed at Army camps and naval bases. Bea Wain, Star Singer of the Big Band Era, Dies at 100 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

In the Philippines there’s a popular banana ketchup that was invented when tomatoes ran short during World War II but otherwise looks and tastes like tomato ketchup. A brief history of ketchup 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

"Rising Phoenix," which is now streaming on Netflix, traces the history of the Paralympic Games from its origin as a rehabilitation activity for disabled British World War II veterans, and is now a global event. Netflix's stunning new Paralympics doc "Rising Phoenix" erases stigma through visual elegance 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps noir was a temporary wave rooted in anxieties about World War II’s destabilization of American home life. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven's sober, well-made World War II melodrama, "Winter in Wartime," is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. 'Winter in Wartime': Nazis and the mysteries of adult life, through a teen's eyes 2011-04-14T21:56:10Z

More does not always mean better, but the years after World War II were a grand era of more. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The family’s comfortable apartment in Casablanca was a stark contrast to their home in Corrano, which was without electricity and indoor plumbing until the years after World War II. Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Modiano, 69, whose novel “Missing Person” won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1978, was born in a west Paris suburb in July 1945, two months after World War II ended in Europe. French author Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize for literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Opera about incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II staged in Washington Hall, where they were sent to register in real life. ‘An American Dream’ tells powerful story in historic setting 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hyer’s most noted role was as an Indiana schoolteacher in “Some Came Running,” based on the James Jones novel about an embittered World War II veteran returning to his home town. Martha Hyer, Oscar-nominated actress for ‘Some Came Running,’ dies at 89

Remarkably, the whole place was largely spared from damage in World War II, allegedly because of ties to Lutheranism by many Allies. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Everything about this crisis is new to the generations born after World War II. Spring is here. Mother Nature doesn’t care about a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

In Washington, D.C., a wreath-laying ceremony and speeches are on tap at the National World War II Memorial. D-Day anniversary events may be last big gathering of U.S. WWII vets 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Allies engaged in terror bombing of Japanese and German cities in World War II. Look at the incendiary raids on Dresden and Tokyo and the nuclear holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Arthur J is dedicated to the late Arthur J. Simms, a World War II bombardier and successful restaurateur in his own right. In Southern California, Hot Steaks With a Cool Vibe 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Objects of everyday life during World War II — the posters, the signs, the leaflets, the newspapers, the letters — land on contemporary senses like sparks still smoldering. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

From those modest beginnings grew an empire that at its height, after the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, spanned 11 time zones and comprised almost 200 million people. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Apparently, it mattered not that Mr. Pitt’s partner, Angelina Jolie, is directing a very different World War II story, Universal’s prisoner-of-war drama “Unbroken,” which will soon be competing with “Fury” on the awards circuit. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

On the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend last year, Jonathan took Rachel to the Mall and proposed in front of the World War II Memorial fountain. On Love: Rachel Levick and Jonathan Corley

You can’t raise a family on minimum wage, not in the way Americans once defined raising a family when our country emerged from World War II so fat and happy. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z

Jacqueline Kennedy dismissed the idea that the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph Jr., would have been president had he not been killed in World War II. New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy 2011-09-12T03:51:08Z

These three pictures — each with a radically different perspective on the lessons of World War II — are likely to open fresh conversations about the war. ‘Fury,’ ‘Unbroken,’ ‘The Imitation Game’ and World War II Heroes 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet by the end of World War II, these songs were dropping off the airwaves with shocking speed. ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

In examining the thoughts and trends that led to World War II, Arendt writes: Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Some of the best of these feature women, including early programmers working frantically during World War II, like Grace Hopper, whose team achieved many great accomplishments and one unforgettable small one. Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Elgar wrote the infrequently performed work during a period of depression and illness at the end of World War II. Music Review: The Violinist James Ehnes at Mostly Mozart?s ?Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T21:58:00Z

A look at how Winston Churchill led the British people through World War II that explores both his political gamesmanship and his family dynamics. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

And he said that with an average of seven new productions a season during his tenure, there is more happening than in “any period since World War II.” Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

Rather than a representation of the artist’s dynamic and expressive self, which was the norm in blustery American art after World War II, this work is an implacable object made to be experienced. The exhibition that has art fans in a fury: Our critic's take on MOCA's Carl Andre retrospective 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The World War II drama “Little Boy,” distributed by Open Road Films, met tracking expectations with a $2.8-million launch in about 1,000 theaters.  Box Office: 'Furious 7' on top again; 'Age of Adaline' has solid debut 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Set in 1950, the film stars Phoenix as Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran and alcoholic who falls under the spell of a California cult leader played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. What’s on TV Wednesday: An Adventure Series and ‘68 Whiskey’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he decided to study architecture, first at the University of Illinois and then at USC, where his professors included Pereira. Credit where it's due: Why Gin Wong never quite became one of L.A. architecture's household names 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Hammond's father killed Nazis during World War II and was disappointed there weren't any around to bludgeon when the war ended, so he terrorized his family. 'Darrell Hammond' traces SNL star's painful path to laughter 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

In the newly opened second hangar of his Flying Heritage Collection, the billionaire cofounder points at an 88mm Flak 37, Nazi Germany’s most feared piece of artillery during World War II. Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:33Z

Her knowledge of Khan comes from her education, much in the same way we have absorbed the history of World War II. That didn't prevent her from being bullied and ostracized before she joined Starfleet. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

Begun in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and completed in 1997, "The Shadows of Time" is a meditation on loss. SSO with Emanuel Ax: mastery coupled with humanity 2012-11-16T17:48:31Z

His designs come from the archives of his Czech Jewish family, who had a textile business before World War II destroyed it and many of Breuer’s relatives were killed. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

That changed with the 1975 publication of “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a fictional World War II plot to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ author Jack Higgins dead at 92 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

The amount of women working outside the home spiked during World War II, which is also a point in time where new developments in food science absolutely skyrocketed. The secretive, sweet — and sometimes saccharine — history of artificial birthday cake flavor 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

George Lloyd's HMS Trinidad March was written for the Royal Navy ship on which he served in World War II. George Lloyd compositions revived for Proms 2013-09-06T09:31:10Z

When American soldiers fought on the battlefields of World War II, they were carrying more than weapons. How the Humble Paperback Helped Win World War II 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

Before the pandemic, when I had more time, I was reading books about World War II and the courage of those working underground in the resistance movements — especially in the German resistance. How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Army in World War II and visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after its liberation. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

He created more than 30 such games, with titles involving the Napoleonic Wars, World War II and, of course, Vietnam. John Prados, Master of Uncovering Government Secrets, Dies at 71 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

During the World War II he lived in hiding in rural France, suffering from a stomach ulcer that eventually killed him. Art Review: Two Meaty Visions of Flesh and Blood 2011-05-12T21:55:51Z

The latest exhibit is the World War II drama “Ashes in the Snow,” adapted from Ruta Sepetys’s novel “Between Shades of Gray.” ‘Ashes in the Snow’ Review: A Labor in Siberia 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" from World War II is also there, as are paintings that reflect the civil rights era. Major art museum opens in unlikely place: Arkansas 2011-11-08T10:31:05Z

Winston Churchill, a notorious late riser even during World War II, dictated to typists while breakfasting in bed. Working From Bed Is Actually Great 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

In World War II, it was a key allied naval base before it was devastated by German bombs. Malta: A citadel of many cultures in the middle of the Mediterranean 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Formerly a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans, this deserted landscape in the Owens Valley was a stark reminder of the stories we often choose to forget. 10 Months, 45 National Parks, 11 Rules 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Made from scraps of plywood and peopled with a tribe of Barbies and World War II action figures, Marwencol grew along the side of his trailer home near Kingston. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z

While Morison’s resulting 15-volume “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II” is celebrated as classic and definitive, it is neither. How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

After earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ms. Scott was a Navy cryptographer during World War II. Obituaries: Jane Scott Is Dead at 92; Veteran Rock Music Critic 2011-07-06T04:11:38Z

He enlisted in the Army at the start of World War II and served in England, Italy and North Africa with the Quartermaster Corps, rising to the rank of major. John Zacherle, Host With a Ghoulish Perspective, Dies at 98 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Fleming, whose experiences as a British intelligence officer in World War II helped him conceive the Bond novels, died in 1964. New 007 film to depict spy's inner demons 2012-04-29T19:46:04Z

Japanese-Americans are protesting an auction slated for Friday of hundreds of artifacts from World War II camps where Americans of Japanese descent were imprisoned. Auction of Art Made by Japanese-Americans in Internment Camps Sparks Protest 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Facing teenage retirement, he joined the Navy and spent part of World War II in the Pacific, drumming in Claude Thornhill’s band. Jackie Cooper, Film and Television Actor, Dies at 88 2011-05-04T23:30:04Z

There "Blood-Dark Track" begins, when O'Neill visits a storage room in his grandmother's hotel and discovers his grandfather's handwritten testament of his arrest and imprisonment in Palestine in World War II. Novelist's cosmopolitan family history reads like an intriguing novel 2010-10-07T19:32:00Z

Louis Zamperini, an Olympian, a World War II veteran and the inspiration for “Unbroken,” who died at 97 in July, will be honored during the celebration in Pasadena, Calif. TV highlights: ‘HGTV Dream House 2015’ offers a tour of this year’s grand prize 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The generation being that of World War II, described here as “played out” and traumatized, exhausted and sad, with no hint of the Greatest Generation mythology that has benefited its American counterpart. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“Only a few hundred Dutch crossed the Channel during World War II” to join resistance efforts based in Britain, he notes. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Using the fashions worn by the women's land army during World War II, she created a modern silhouette, with many outfits based on long length skirts and elegant tops. Sienna and Savannah Miller design catwalk show 2010-09-18T20:16:00Z

She also chaired the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, which spurred the government to pay reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II. Three audacious women before audacious was in 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her father was a finance officer with the Army, her mother a homemaker, and during World War II the family moved from one posting to the next before returning to Sacramento after the war. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The German artist, born beneath the bombs of the last months of World War II, sees in everything a cycle of ruin and rebirth. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Formed in 1947 for World War II veterans on the G.I. Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z

But an early marriage to Ernest C. B. White, a medical student, and the outbreak of World War II halted her plans for a writing career. P. D. James, Novelist Known as ‘Queen of Crime,’ Dies at 94 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The point of Inferno is that it’s a record of the way ordinary people experienced World War II. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z

We follow the central character, Nicholas Jenkins, from school days through World War II to eventual old age as a respected novelist. Ian Rankin: By the Book 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Once an elegant resort lined with Victorian mansions, it waned in popularity after World War II, and neighborhoods were razed to make way for public housing projects. Taking the a Train to Summer 2011-06-15T21:30:41Z

The movie consists entirely of found footage from World War II, almost all of it seemingly from Nazi, British and American sources. In Cannes, Filmmakers Contend With Despair and Beauty, Too 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

It begins in the late 1940s, when the German clothing industry, like much of the country, was still devastated by World War II. T Magazine: Made in Germany 2011-08-03T21:22:52Z

For years, the focus of restitution has been on Europe, especially pieces looted during World War II. But the lens has widened of late to countries that were once colonies of European powers. A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

He wrote the letters between the ages of 18 and 30, in the wake of World War II and into the late 1950s. British Library Acquires Letters of Harold Pinter 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

His heirs have been trying since the end of World War II to recover all that the Nazis stole. Court seems to boost claim to 'Adam' and 'Eve' at Norton Simon Museum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he obtained a teaching position at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, and the family moved once again. Diana Balmori, Landscape Architect With a Blending Philosophy, Dies at 84 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Russian officials at the end of World War II wanted a victory symphony. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lloyd created with David Croft — was a World War II farce, filled with sexual innuendo, slapstick gags and overwrought accents, in which factions of British, French and Germans clashed in a small French cafe. Jeremy Lloyd, Creator of British TV Comedies, Dies at 84 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Or she lands in Germany, walks in to a photography shop and becomes best friends with Eva Braun, Hitler’s girlfriend, enduring a rain of bombs on Berlin in the closing days of World War II. ‘Life After Life’: One woman’s story, told and retold 2013-04-03T23:20:06Z

Sydney Johnson was born in the Bahamas, and started working for the Duke of Windsor when he was 16, when the duke was governor of the islands during World War II. ‘The Crown’: The Story of Mohamed Al-Fayed and His Valet 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

While my teacher discussed the Constitution, I took the cartographical look of the U.S. military’s Pacific island-hopping campaign of World War II, globalized it, and set it in an unimaginable future nine years distant.  My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z

Before World War II broke out, German intelligence officers frequented Bullard’s club, enabling him to eavesdrop and pass on what he heard to French counterintelligence officers. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The United States was the most protectionist country in the world from the Civil War up until World War II. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

It’s 1939, World War II is imminent, and we join the story aboard the MV Britannic en route from the Old World to the New. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Here is a crucial exchange, taking place between a German diplomat and his frustrated son, just after the Armistice when the seeds of World War II are already being sown. 'Fall of Giants': Ken Follett's suspenseful epic of five families in the 20th century 2010-09-24T20:21:00Z

Ford’s World War II drama “They Were Expendable” didn’t make the cut, but “The Wings of Eagles,” his biopic of the Navy commander who wrote the screenplay to that film, will be shown onSaturday. Movie Listings for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

His drama training was interrupted by World War II service in the Army medical corps, in which he earned the rank of captain. Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The Nazis looted the city’s art collections during World War II; a Dürer drawing now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington was held in a Lviv library until 1941. Rescuing Art in Ukraine with Foam, Crates and Cries for Help 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

He joined the military, and while stationed in the Pacific during World War II made his first windmill from parts of a junked B-29 bomber, to power a giant washing machine for soldiers’ clothes. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z

“Lost in Rio” finds OSS 117 tracking down a piece of microfilm, with the names of World War II French collaborators, which has made its way to Brazil in swinging 1967. | 'OSS 117: Lost in Rio': French Spy Spoof Set in Swinging ?67 Rio 2010-05-07T04:04:00Z

Wartime museums display the bland hardtack that sustained Civil War fighters, and the canned meats, breads and fruit of World War II, known as C rations. Unloved by Generations of Soldiers, the M.R.E. Finds a Fan Base 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

"They lost escorted bombers to enemy aircraft on only seven of those missions," totaling 27 American planes, he said in an interview with the National World War II Museum. 10 inspiring facts about the Tuskegee Airmen 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Throughout, the book evokes the ethos of the World War II era, with subtle notes of can-do attitude and pugnacious spirit. The Herculean Effort to Build an American Army 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

What could be dry texts on, say, papal relations in the 13th century and the French resistance in World War II become easily digestible anecdotes about Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the Kir cocktail. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

A special treat will soon await World War II history buffs outside the front entrance to the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms in London. Memories of World War II on Display in London 2010-08-09T10:05:00Z

During World War II, he served overseas for a psychological warfare unit that developed and distributed leaflets designed to demoralize the enemy. Oscar Dystel, publisher of paperback phenoms, dies at 101

Born in Houston in 1936, Berry moved after World War II to Seattle, where he overlapped for a semester with Quincy Jones at Garfield High School. Beloved Seattle jazz pianist Overton Berry dies at 84 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Now audiences can experience a similar phenomenon with this 10-part series about World War II, revisiting major events like D-Day, the Battle of Britain and Hiroshima in vivid color. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Let It Snow’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

It’s as if he’d written a book about modern Japan by interviewing the living World War II veterans. Books of The Times: Paradise Is Only Half the Story in a Complex Caribbean Nation 2011-04-14T21:52:13Z

During World War II, she performed with the U.S.O. in Europe; after the war she met her husband working in a show for wounded veterans. Helen Stenborg, Actress From Theatrical Family, Dies at 86 2011-03-24T02:38:06Z

It is my No. 1 choice because the humble Florence Finch, a young, widowed Filipino woman living in Manila during World War II, left me in awe of her bravery and courage. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

To beat fraudulent content, we must leave Silicon Valley and step onto the battlefields of World War II. How the WW2 Resistance fought Nazi propaganda with fake news of their own 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Chinese by ancestry, he grew up in Korea, Japan and Shanghai, reaching young manhood during the worst of World War II in Asia. Adams, Namkung: nature at Woodside/Braseth 2011-09-29T20:05:03Z

We’ve grown accustomed to seeing approximations of World War II in vivid color in films like “Dunkirk,” “Letters From Iwo Jima” and “Saving Private Ryan.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Parts Unknown’ and the BET Awards 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

He worked as a field research assistant in the South for civil rights groups in the 1940s, was a photo intelligence officer during World War II and afterward worked as a newspaper reporter. George C. Stoney, Documentarian, Dies at 96 2012-07-15T05:57:17Z

Stories about the Balkans before World War II, or the final days of W. C. Fields. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And he repurposed a scherzo passage in his Fifth Symphony, written during World War II. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

That’s more or less how things worked in the United States and Western Europe in the decades that followed World War II, which delivered widely shared prosperity on a scale never before seen. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Vega, a World War II veteran, was also a longtime Little League and Babe Ruth baseball coach in Everett, Mass., where a square was dedicated in his honor in October. Al Vega, Boston jazz pianist, dies at 90 2011-12-03T09:01:05Z

Navy and served in World War II. When he returned home, he went on to work at his father’s hardware store until he switched to sales and then insurance. Couple married for 73 years die hours apart: 'God was up to something' 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The first story is a fable about how her grandfather became a man, and it takes place during World War II, in the village where he grew up. Books of The Times: Family Fables Mix With a Riven Land?s Loss 2011-03-10T13:26:53Z

He was one of the first abstract expressionist artists following World War II. Police: Woman attacked Clyfford Still painting 2012-01-05T22:01:09Z

Regardless, it's a remarkably powerful film, set a few years after World War II, about a one man looking for a home, and another man looking for a son. At TIFF: 'The Master' is masterful 2012-09-08T22:46:04Z

The book, "Command and Control," examines the efforts of the military, since the atomic era began during World War II, to prevent nuclear weapons from being stolen, sabotaged or detonated by accident. ArtsBeat: 'Fast Food Nation' Author Will Return With Book on Nuclear Weapons 2012-10-05T21:22:44Z

And I was also talking about Hitler, whose point of view, the range of atrocities from World War II -- it's important to keep that in perspective, what Hitler's ultimate plan was. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z

After two years at the Architectural Association in London, she returned to the United States as World War II began. Florence Knoll Bassett, 101, Designer of the Modern American Office, Dies 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

After World War II, borders were redrawn to return it to Poland from Germany. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The song was released as a single and was played frequently on Armed Forces Radio during World War II. Music Monday: The Rise of the Christmas Album 2011-12-12T14:15:42Z

"The Monuments Men": George Clooney directs and stars in the World War II story of art experts sent into Germany to recover masterpieces stolen by the Nazis. Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup 2013-01-09T22:46:05Z

After the cataclysm of World War II, European leaders concluded that the disaster was a product of an excess of politics in this elemental sense. The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

The milieu includes violent power struggles between labor unions, the developing aesthetics of the Northwest School of artists, and the deprivations and uncertainties of World War II. 'Clara and Merritt:' love and labor unrest in a long-ago Seattle 2010-07-15T20:52:00Z

The rest of this recording offers divergent responses to the place of tradition at the end of World War II, questioning of the fate of exactly the kind of late Romantic music Wilson cherishes. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Before World War II, many millions spoke the common language of Eastern European Jews. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Rather than fading from the international scene after World War II, the United Kingdom influenced and propped up an uncertain United States, Leebaert argues in this re-envisioning of the postwar historical consensus. New in Paperback: ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ and ‘The Shades’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

An exception was during World War II, when he was in the Army studying and teaching aerial photography. Photographs by Horace Poolaw at National Museum of the American Indian 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The June 6, 1944, event turned the tide of World War II and helped liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. World leaders gather to honor veterans on eve of D-Day anniversary 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Among the assembled 58 paintings, most of the dozen that date from the 1930s to the end of World War II are captivating — exceedingly strange, not in flashy or dramatic ways but as murmuring enigmas. 'Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective' downplays the painter's key early works 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Other drama picks were the space fantasy "Avatar," the Iraq War tale "The Hurt Locker," the World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds" and the Harlem drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." 2009-12-15T08:01:00Z

And in a Germany grappling with national identity 75 years after the end of World War II, Czollek, 32, isn’t anywhere near done talking about anti-Semitism. In Germany, a Jewish Millennial Argues That the Past Isn’t Past 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

When Beltrán, an aviator, is injured in World War II and Maricruz finds herself tending him as a nurse, the loyalties of all three characters are put to the test. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

During World War II, Donald Duck joined the Air Force while Minnie Mouse stayed home hoarding bacon grease, to the dismay of a hungry Pluto, so it could be used to make explosives. Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Katharina Wagner reiterated that she and her sister would fulfill their pledge to explore the ties of her family to Hitler and the Nazis in the years before and during World War II. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

An exhibit on the experiences of black soldiers after they returned home from World War II, “A Closed Society,” includes artifacts belonging to Medgar Evers, who helped build the civil rights movement in those years. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

—When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, White, then just shy of 20, joined a women’s volunteer organization that provided home-front support. Nearing 100, Betty White’s life is a page-turner in new book 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

At least the Pacific-war soldiers coming back from World War II decompressed on ships for weeks. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

Brooks moved from Paris to Italy in 1937, and after World War II she basically gave up on art and increasingly kept to herself. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

He served in World War II as a radio gunner for the Army Air Forces. LA kids' TV show host 'Sheriff' John Rovick dies 2012-10-07T05:46:08Z

Peggy Guggenheim and her Art of This Century were all-essential during World War II, when the European Surrealists fled to Manhattan and provided the local scene with a caffeine jolt of French culture. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Reitman was born, also in Czechoslovakia, in the aftermath of World War II. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

He studied physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, before enlisting in the military in World War II. Joseph Strick, Screenwriter, Is Dead at 86 2010-06-08T04:52:00Z

With the outbreak of World War II, he was drafted into the Army and served in the Pacific, at Guadalcanal and Fiji. Leslie H. Martinson, Director of Prime-Time TV for Four Decades, Dies at 101 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

But the handiest year for TV’s genesis is 1946 — when technology, optimism and renewed consumer buying power joined forces at World War II’s conclusion and gave broadcast television a belated kick-start. Growing up together, TV and baby boomers were a perfect fit 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Huntsville, Ala., Matthews loved to watch “Combat,” the 1960s TV series about a World War II infantry squad. Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

It will focus on the writer's life, from serving in World War II to the publication of Catcher in 1951. New footage 'added' to Salinger film 2013-09-23T11:10:16Z

The robbers took other items of World War II memorabilia, Mr. Seelen said, with the haul worth about $1.5 million in total. Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

No longer “pilloried” for his affair with Ava Gardner or his failure to serve in World War II, Sinatra began his steady climb to “new heights of arrogance.” Frank Sinatra: Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in two new biographies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Army, where he served in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, according to his nephew. Music executive and film producer Saul Zaentz dies at 92 2014-01-05T05:58:15Z

At grammar school in the 1960s, Trimpin learned nothing of this, or of Germany's horrific "Final Solution" campaign that annihilated 6 million European Jews during World War II. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z

The raid quickly became one of the most storied military missions of World War II, with enormous press coverage and, in 1944, a movie based on the true events starring Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle. 'Target Tokyo' brings a well-known WWII story back to life 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Through the program, Nicholls partnered with the National World War II Museum in New Orleans to gain deeper insight into the 1944 events. Nicholls student, history professor visit Normandy 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Damaged in World War II, the armaments factories closed in 1967. A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

“How many of us think about World War I or World War II?” he said. Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

We have a great collection of World War II propaganda posters. The Federal Government’s Latest Project: Squirrel GIFs 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

World War II is full of stories of doubt, despair and many other things that don’t look like honor or courage. Review | In Hulu’s ‘Catch-22,’ a fine reminder that the Greatest Generation also had its cynics 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

“And the biggest act of colonial violence against the Sámi was the industrial logging on our lands” that started after World War II, she said. At Venice Biennale, a ‘Different Notion of Nation’ 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Teaching future generations about the experiences that were learned in World War II is extremely important,” Mr. Bollinger said in a telephone interview. $20 Million Gift to Expand National World War II Museum 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

It was severe enough to get him rejected by the military draft during World War II. Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88 2011-07-18T03:30:33Z

"We never would have imagined any of this when we were using fireworks to make World War II movies in our backyards." Director Christopher McQuarrie's unlikely path to 'Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation' 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Vronsky has an alarming theory about the “enormous glut” of American serial murderers who came of age during World War II and the postwar baby boom. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

The visual and audio installations plunge the visitor into the past and tell the story of what happened to the people of Vercors during World War II. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Her uncle died with the French Resistance, and she had to visit the spot 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Employing a good Hollywood tradition, the film’s stars, who appeared doomed to die in the first film, are alive in the second film, which takes place at the beginning of World War II. Russian Director Presents Grand Epic of World War II 2010-05-10T12:00:00Z

Chedid died in Sunday in Paris, where she settled after the end of World War II, the Flammarion publishing house said. French poet Andree Chedid dies in Paris 2011-02-07T20:56:11Z

The Bernstein is about young people’s lives and the Britten offers foreshadowings of World War II. National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Rasenberg, 51, whose Dutch parents emigrated to Ontario after World War II, said the book had stirred an interest in his lowland roots. At Schiphol, an Unlikely Sanctuary of Books 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z

Don Evans, a World War II tank gunner who advised Mr. Ayer, now cautions that some scenes in “Fury” are more extreme than what he witnessed in 28 months overseas. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Brad Pitt plays a steely tank commander in writer-director David Ayer's World War II thriller, which is a departure from the "Training Day" / "End of Watch" screenwriter's usual Los Angeles crime stories. 'Fury' treads on Peckinpah war picture territory 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Lively’s father was a British diplomat, and she was born in Egypt, where her early years were colored by the events of World War II and by the vivid sights and sounds of Cairo. A rich portrait of Penelope Lively’s long and eventful life 2014-02-05T22:02:42Z

It explores Japan's guilt about the colonization of Asia that led to World War II, juxtaposed with an elderly Japanese man, living his retirement years in Malaysia. Tokyo festival produces heartwarming trilogy of Asian films 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

During World War II, she sang with Stephane Grappelli and pianist George Shearing in a group that performed in London clubs throughout the Blitz. Big band singer Beryl Davis dies at 87 in Calif. 2011-11-01T14:13:08Z

The earnings of the great American middle class fueled the great American expansion for three decades after World War II. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z

After World War II, more research led to the system of child-abuse reporting we have now, in which various professionals — doctors, teachers, daycare workers — are required to report suspicions of abuse. Home: America’s most dangerous place 2013-04-18T15:23:00Z

Again, if World War II didn't end, you wouldn't have the Beatles. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

Then the 1945, a legendary vintage from the end of World War II, which was surprisingly youthful and fresh. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Like Call of Duty, the Medal of Honor series was originally set during World War II. Video Game Review: A Clear Winner in the Battle of 2 Combat Games 2010-10-19T16:31:00Z

She lived with her mother, her grandparents, one uncle and three aunts, each of whom worked for the Torrington Co., which produced sewing and surgical needles and, in World War II, bearings. Three audacious women before audacious was in 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Stationed in Italy after World War II, he found a book of Ezra Pound's poetry in a shop in Verona.  Charles Wright named new U.S. poet laureate 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

In this new book, Ada’s clubfoot is finally fixed, but she is slower to heal from her emotional wounds, especially as World War II continues to claim the lives of those for whom she cares. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He served as commanding officer of minesweeping vessels in the Navy during World War II and stumbled into announcing after the war at Ohio State University. Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

We hadn’t been taught about World War II yet.” George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

An exertion of the imagination can render the horrors of World War II, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake or the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in endless variations. The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

The former illustrator, painter and decorated World War II veteran passed away in London on Tuesday night, Bloomsbury Publishing said. Prolific fantasy writer Russell Hoban dies 2011-12-15T18:02:10Z

He was followed by Frank Sinatra and another Rat Pack wave after World War II, transforming Palm Springs into a “mecca for midcentury modernity,” said Charles Phoenix, author of “Addicted to Americana.” America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Prosecutors say the paintings remained missing after World War II. 2 paintings seized in NY stolen by Nazis in Poland 2010-12-20T20:07:08Z

His stories are often about U.S. history and World War II. Roman followed in his father’s and brother’s footsteps at age 3 and prefers creating superhero comics. Aspiring cartoonists are drawn to the Small Press Expo 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

But World War II museums are not just homes for memorabilia, he said: they play an important educational role. Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Government policies started limiting labor’s ability to organize workplaces after World War II and moved more aggressively to limit union power starting in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. If Liberalism Is in Crisis, Who’s to Blame? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

One of this so-called mad scientist’s notable accomplishments was to suggest that the British could use ice strategically in World War II: by building aircraft carriers from a compound of sawdust and ice. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The book is called “Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II,” but this is no documentary about life at the grass roots. New York City at War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Its timing: set to film just before World War II begins. Books of The Times: ‘Mission to Paris’ by Alan Furst 2012-06-03T22:37:20Z

Wiesel’s deep, brown eyes hold infinite layers of sadness, testament to the darkness he witnessed in the Nazi death camps during World War II. “You cannot save the whole world at one time”: Revisit Salon’s 2000 conversation with Elie Wiesel 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

His role, as a British officer masterminding an escape plan from a German prisoner-of-war camp, was integral to one of the most revered and enjoyable of all World War II films. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cacoyannis discovered theater while he was a student in London, where his well-off family sent him to study law before the start of World War II. Michael Cacoyannis, Director of ?Zorba the Greek,? Dies at 90 2011-07-26T05:08:08Z

After graduating from W. C. Mepham High School in Bellmore, N.Y., he joined the Army, fought in the infantry in Europe in World War II and spent 16 years in the service. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

By 1939, the Spanish war had ended with Franco’s victory and the defeat of the Republic; World War II was destroying Europe. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Smoke from incense rises as you approach the main hall, originally built in 628, destroyed by fires and World War II, and rebuilt in 1958. Solo in Tokyo 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

But after World War II, Harry Truman responded to Stalin's Soviet Union with the doctrine of global containment. 'The Emergency State:' overreaching presidents, from Roosevelt to Obama 2012-02-23T21:35:38Z

In March, city officials found an unexploded 1,000-pound World War II bomb in a sports center in south London. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Homemakers during World War II considered themselves soldiers of the kitchen, with conservation their battle cry. Efficiency in the Kitchen to Reduce Food Waste 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

By World War II, the world’s food system had gained more technology and logistics knowledge as a result of the necessities of warfare. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

He made his screen debut in the 1948 World War II drama “Fighter Squadron,” which also featured the first film appearance of actor Rock Hudson. Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in TV’s ‘Superman’ series, dies at 87 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Rickles grew up in Queens and spent more than two years in the Navy during World War II — an experience that remains a staple of his act. Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he’s still going. 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Those laws emerged, specifically, out of World War II, on the eve of which the United States, among with other countries, turned back persecuted Jews who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean by ship. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

The importance of leveling with the public as directly as possible had seen America through depression and World War II in Kennedy’s youth. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

They were joining an American Red Cross group that took its name from the Donut Dollies of World War II — a name given to them because they made doughnuts for the troops. After 50 years, the mystery of these Vietnam War photos of ‘Donut Dollies’ is solved 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

When we talk about the 20th century, the Great Migration should be right up there with a discussion of the New Deal, or World War II, or the Harlem Renaissance. Isabel Wilkerson on Black America's Immigration Story 2010-10-02T06:20:00Z

They noted, for example, that the broadcast of “Saving Private Ryan,” the World War II movie by Steven Spielberg that portrayed the Normandy landings, was permitted, even though it included plenty of four-letter words. Supreme Court hears case on profanity rules 2012-01-10T20:02:00Z

The book will chronicle her childhood growing up in the former Yugoslavia, where her father served as a commander during World War II and her mother was a major in the army. Marina Abramovic to Publish a Memoir in 2016 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The curious and salutary aspect of Attenborough’s distinguished acting career, during World War II and for several decades afterward, is that he often played flawed, shady or malevolent characters. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents because it is suspected of having been looted during World War II. ArtsBeat Blog: Authorities in Florida Seize Painting on Loan to a Museum 2011-11-04T22:13:53Z

World War II fantasy with lots of talk, most of it in French or German — snagged $38.1 million on its way to a $120.5 million gross in domestic theaters and nearly $200 million abroad. Box Office: Stallone Wins Another Expendable Weekend 2010-08-22T17:05:00Z

“Little Big Man” is “one of the dozen or so best American novels since World War II,” Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda wrote in 1996. Thomas Berger, author of ‘Little Big Man’ and other novels, dies at 89

He served in the Army during World War II and became a correspondent in the Pacific for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Dickie Moore, former Hollywood child star of 1930s, dies at 89 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

For a few decades after World War II, California seemed a showcase of what America could and would become. How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

In the brutal World War II action movie "Fury," Logan Lerman plays a raw draftee thrown into battle, enduring a 24-hour crucible of death and destruction. How Logan Lerman worked up the nerve to sock Brad Pitt 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Born in Shanghai a year before Japanese forces invaded Manchuria, he came of age in the turmoil of World War II in China, the son of a Japanese linguist who may have been a spy. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Their parents managed to escape the Nazis as well, but many of their relatives were killed during World War II, and the girls’ mother committed suicide in 1946. Review: ‘Eva Hesse’ Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Brief Life 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

He studied in New York City during the 1930s and served in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II. He received a master’s degree in physics from Cambridge in 1949. E.R. Braithwaite, author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Barker is a former World War II fighter pilot. Bob Barker donates $2 million to Semper Fi Fund 2011-03-08T17:36:59Z

In contrast to the respect often accorded to the generation that fought World War II, their progeny are facing relative hostility in their senescence. Baby boomers are taking on ageism — and losing 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Before World War II, divorce was fairly shocking, particularly in traditional, southern families. T Magazine: Ciao, Amore 2010-10-13T15:00:00Z

They will allow more than 300 institutions to retain staff and shift programming online, and will support tours at the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre and digital programming at the World War II Museum. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New CARES Act Grants 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

In this essay, Mr. Baker questions how Britain and the United States waged the war against Hitler, making the dubious assertion that “the pacifists of World War II were right.” Books of The Times: Nicholson Baker, ‘The Way the World Works’ 2012-08-12T20:34:47Z

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film centers on an American reporter Joel McCrea sent to Europe on the brink of World War II. Critics' Picks Video: 'Foreign Correspondent' 2010-08-02T22:44:00Z

The Emerald Inn on Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side opened during World War II and closed last year because the rent became too expensive. A Sobering Future for New York’s Dive Bars 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

He was an architect of the Marshall Plan, which helped revive the economies of Western Europe after World War II and helped undermine Stalin's belief that the West would turn against itself. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

During World War II, the Germans “set up a command post in Bassano,” but they did not loot the statue, he continued. Nude Christ by Michelangelo, Long Forgotten, to Be Shown in London 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

But by then, the university had shut down all its graduate programs because of financial pressures caused by World War II, and ultimately Bluford was never able to attend Mizzou. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

En route to the site of a World War II plane that crashed near the Papua New Guinean village of Likan.Credit... A Personal Pilgrimage to a Downed Warplane in Papua New Guinea 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Bernard graduated from West Side High School in Newark, spent two years at Rutgers University and went into the Army, passing much of World War II in a special services entertainment unit in Hawaii. Bernard Gersten, Offstage Star of Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 97 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

When that proved deadly to humans as well as insects, it was followed right after World War II by DDT, which reigned until Rachel Carson disgraced it with her book “Silent Spring” in 1962. The food industry isn’t going to ditch pesticides any time soon, but you can in your own garden 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Allegiance,” a new musical about the internment of Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II, could be said to suffer from a problem of divided loyalties, and I’m not referring to its characters. Review: ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical History Lesson About Interned Japanese-Americans 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

When the United States entered World War II in 1941, a huge challenge for its military was getting to where the fighting was, safely. ‘Greyhound’ Review: At Sea in World War II, With Tom Hanks in Command 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

I’ve heard that when Nabokov was invited to Germany after World War II, he said, “I won’t go because I don’t want to accidentally shake hands with a murderer.” The Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the decades before World War II, many artists were thrilled by the steel- and fossil-fuel-based technology embodied in trains, planes and automobiles, and edifices like the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building. Critic?s Notebook: Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds 2011-04-14T22:25:54Z

His wife urges him to write the story of his father, Earl, a decorated World War II hero, and his grandfather Charles, a rural Arkansas sheriff. Depression-era outlaws come shooting back to life in Stephen Hunter’s latest thriller 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

I walked to the square’s northern end and the National Historical Museum with its huge exterior mosaic, a tribute to Albanian history, from the Illyrians to World War II partisans. Tirana, Breaking Free From Communist Past, Is a City Transformed 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

They are thought to recall the leather overcoats worn by Nazis who brutally interrogated him during World War II in an effort to locate his father, a member of the Dutch Resistance. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Halperin went on to say, “Outside of the Civil War, World War II and including 9/11, this may be the most cataclysmic event the country’s ever seen.” For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Though the girls appeared in London stage plays in their early teens, World War II ended what might have been left of their careers. Claudine Mawby, Last of Early Film ‘Triplets,’ Dies at 90 2012-09-22T03:07:50Z

The United Nations estimates that there are 25.9 million refugees worldwide, the highest number recorded since World War II and almost twice the total from 2012. Visualizing the Refugee Experience 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

War memorials are among the most popular stops on tourists' Washington itineraries: Last year the Vietnam Wall drew 5.1 million; World War II, 4.9 million; Korean War, 4.2 million, according to the National Park Service. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

“In the United States, the collective memory of World War II sees the war as ‘our finest hour,’” he wrote in a 2003 edition of “A World Destroyed.” Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84, 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

World War II brought African-American workers and more Latinos from the Midwest and the South, many of whom were eventually displaced by the beast of urban renewal projects. A guide to Oakland’s rich history and resilience, from a waterfront saloon to the shores of Lake Merritt 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

But far fewer Americans still recall the even more passionate debate over our stance toward Nazi Germany during the first two years of World War II. Book tells of fight over intervention 2013-03-25T15:52:08Z

When Colonel Warren thanked him for his kindness, Captain Quy said, “Well, you took good care of us in World War II and Korea and Vietnam.” Bargain Plane?s Priceless Heritage 2011-05-04T23:44:39Z

He went there in 1933-34, not long before he died in World War II, drowned when his ship was torpedoed. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

I believe the last time we celebrated something on that scale was the end of a war—when World War II ended. Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

During World War II she served in the Waves, a Navy division for women. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z

Robinson’s latest follows him to St. Louis in the years after World War II. No longer young, his hair thinning, he drinks and can’t keep a job. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

The palace said at the time that the queen, who served in World War II as an army driver, had a “firm intention” to attend the Remembrance Sunday service. Palace: Queen Elizabeth II will attend remembrance service 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The permanent exhibit, “Extraordinary Heroes,” includes the stories of several Frenchmen and women who fought for Britain during World War II and were awarded the George Cross for their exceptional acts of courage. The Legacy De Gaulle Left in London 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Many of his compositions, including a two-piano version of the Grammy-nominated concerto, were left in a trunk in the basement of a hotel in Milan that was bombed during World War II. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

The experience of World War II confirmed his view of photography as an instrument for visualizing social change. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z

Made from bronze left over from World War II, the simple pieces “seemed to defy trend,” says Purnell. Six Emerging Furniture Designers to Know 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

A third car was driven around the United States to promote the Allied cause during World War II, then sold for scrap by a Kansas junkyard. Treats for Gear Heads 2010-09-19T21:30:00Z

The railroad line, which stretched to Monte Cristo, was abandoned during the Great Depression and removed a few years before World War II. A Hike and a Happy Hour: Trek to a mossy lime kiln, then savor a hoppy brew 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

We've lost all seriousness and gravity of the concepts that Roosevelt meant after World War II. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z

Enigma Machines Fetch High Prices at Auctions Late in World War II, fleeing German soldiers tried to destroy the equipment they used for transmitting messages in their Enigma code. Antiques: Enigma Machines Fetch High Prices at Auctions 2013-05-16T19:56:44Z

It completely overlooks Mr. Geisel’s anti-Japanese cartoons from World War II, which he later regretted. At the Dr. Seuss Museum: Oh, the Places They Don’t Go! 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

All these simplifying narrative tropes were deeply embedded in World War II movies; but Bertolini has also seen The Hurt Locker. Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess 2011-03-11T11:05:00Z

He won a scholarship to attend college at Lawrence Technical Institute, before he was drafted to serve in World War II and later worked as a draftsman and insurance salesman. My John DeLorean Story 2011-10-21T17:24:21Z

It has one of the few fire-control towers from World War II remaining on the Delaware shore. Millions of horseshoe crabs spawn on the shores of Delaware Bay each year. Here’s how to see them. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln understood this, channeling his love for theater while refining his own declamatory style; Winston Churchill’s greatest creation might have been the beloved and respected World War II leader known as Winston Churchill. Perspective | Andrew Cuomo’s star turn is part of a long cinematic tradition 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Dan Kurzman, who wrote military histories that illuminated little-known incidents in World War II and an exhaustively reported account of the first Arab-Israeli war, died Dec. 12 in Manhattan. Dan Kurzman, Military Historian, Is Dead at 88 2010-12-25T02:58:28Z

“Most of this palace was also ruined during World War II,” Ms. Zarebska told me, as we walked through the Palace on the Isle, once the park’s primary residence. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z

Chareau, who fled Europe at the start of World War II, spent his last years in New York, which will be the show’s focus. Museums Embrace the Unfamiliar 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

But after World War II — Italy lost the war — the Paris Treaty designated the borders. Chef Lidia Bastianich reveals why she cooks: "Food is comfort, food is memory, it communicates" 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

He did not start acting until he was studying sociology and psychology at the London School of Economics after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Ron Moody dies at 91; British actor played Fagin in the movie “Oliver!” 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

During World War II, a number of Japanese American women were forced to broadcast on a program called “Zero Hour.” Datebook: J.M.W. Turner's late work, African portraiture, lowbrow pin-ups 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Though Steinbeck’s books remain his most significant literary output, Souder also dives into Steinbeck’s life as a journalist, including overseas postings during World War II and the Vietnam War, and how they shaped his worldview. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Army since World War II and finds it lacking in accountability and unable to successfully fight and win the “messy small wars” of the future. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z

During World War II, you'd be hard-pressed to find a comic book that didn't urge kids to recycle metal and paper, grow a victory garden or "Keep 'Em Flying!" Comics: Justice League fights real-world hunger 2012-02-03T18:02:04Z

Even 66 years after the end of World War II, when relatively few living Europeans can remember the conflict, sensitivity on this continent to virtually any utterance about Hitler or the Holocaust remains extreme. Cannes: Lars von Trier's "Nazi" scandal gets even dumber 2011-05-19T16:35:00Z

It took two solid decades, after the end of World War II, for the “American-type painting” of Jackson Pollock and friends to win respect in Paris, London or Turin. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“But that doesn’t change the fact that their expulsion by the Allies and the eastern and central European states in the aftermath of World War II was also an injustice.” Berlin museum centering on Germans expelled after WWII opens 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

During World War II, when metal was in demand again, the Bethlehem Steel Co. attempted another salvage operation, hauling ships into the basin and setting them on fire to access the remaining metal. In Mallows Bay, a ‘ghost fleet’ of wrecked ships is very much alive 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Chevallier’s frank depictions of the war’s terrors caused the book to be suppressed during and after World War II over worries that it would demoralize citizens and troops. ArtsBeat: A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival 2014-05-02T18:57:31Z

It’s the same feeling moviegoers must have had in the World War II era, when Hollywood was churning out generic battlefield films featuring the same life-or-death drama, bonding and sacrifice. Television Review: ‘Chicago Fire,’ a Rescue Squad Drama, on NBC 2012-10-09T22:01:18Z

The series cites both Kesey’s novel and Milos Forman’s film as source material, though before “Ratched,” the character’s only canonical backstory was that she served as a nurse in World War II. ‘Ratched’ is Sarah Paulson’s most terrifying role yet — and not for the reason you might think 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

His graduation coincided with the outbreak of World War II. He joined the Arabic section of the BBC, where he was exposed to Arabic as a living language spoken by millions. Denys Johnson-Davies, Translator of Arab Writers, Is Dead at 94 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

“All the Light,” which was set during World War II, featured a blind French girl helping the resistance and a German boy conscripted into the Wehrmacht. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

During World War II he joined the Army Air Corps and worked as a fitness instructor and as an actor in a traveling troupe that entertained troops. Harold Shaw, Manager of Major Classical Artists, Dies at 90 2014-02-01T02:01:54Z

In one work in the biennial, Lee has depicted supporters of the Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 through World War II, their hands tied, awaiting trials that did not occur. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Born in 1921 in Passaic, N.J., he served in World War II, tried chicken farming and was briefly a professional gambler — a job designation that applied for the rest of his life. Saul Zaentz: What Does a Producer Do, Anyway? 2014-01-09T17:04:41Z

This is a fascinating story, but the author apparently assumes that his readers not only know nothing about World War II but also have trouble reaching simple conclusions. Wartime serial killer prowled shadows of Nazi Berlin 2014-02-12T20:13:40Z

But it was after World War II that the stiletto took hold. Makers: Who Made That Stiletto? 2012-04-13T18:26:02Z

Dare Memorial Timorese children helped two companies of marooned Australian soldiers inflict huge casualties on Japanese imperial forces during World War II by providing them with food, shelter and knowledge of the land. Five Reasons to Visit Dili 2011-11-10T14:15:00Z

In the years after World War II, he seemed irreparably stained by his association with National Socialism. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

During World War II, when sugar rations were short, sorghum sweetened her family’s birthday cakes and Christmas cookies. Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Would no atomic bombs have been used in World War II? Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z

The Tuskegee Airmen rightly get attention; one of their World War II biplanes is prominently displayed elsewhere on the premises. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

This World War II film stars Alec Guinness as a British colonel in a Japanese prisoner of war camp who must oversee the building of a bridge to aid Japanese forces. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Crooked House’ and ‘Who Killed Tupac?’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

“I still get dozens of tweets every day from people who say, ‘I forgot I was following World War II, and I suddenly thought the Germans were about to invade Holland,’ ” Mr. Collinson said. Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII 2011-11-27T20:53:31Z

After this country’s “victory weapon” obliterated two Japanese cities in August 1945, most Americans sighed with relief that World War II was finally over. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z

And it's no small feat: it's only his fourth season at the storied house - founded on the eve of World War II. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z

Television is beguiled by history, and not just chapter headings like World War II or the taming of the Wild West. ‘Extant’ Stars Halle Berry as a Space Traveler With a Secret 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

The Aug. 4 raid in Beek was only the most dramatic in a string of recent robberies from World War II museums in Europe, and the burglaries are spreading panic among similar institutions. Thieves Grab Nazi Memorabilia in Museum Heists, Puzzling Police 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

It was a site of brutal fighting during World War II, grimly commemorated by one cliff nicknamed Suicide and another called Banzai. Books of The Times: ?The Master Blaster? by P. F. Kluge 2012-03-25T21:54:42Z

Before World War II there were “little bits and pieces” of research being done, says Sam Gruber, a marine biology professor emeritus at the University of Miami considered a pioneer in the field. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The program ended around the time World War II began. On your next hike, spare a thought for the trail builders who made it possible 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

The film portrays Chinese villagers who capture a wounded Japanese soldier near the end of World War II. Chinese director coy on political satire's message 2011-01-11T14:49:09Z

This song, like others in the show, combines catchy hooks with music that seems to embody the nervous energy of the World War II world. ‘Code Name: Cynthia’: True story of a Washington society spy 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

More typically, members of their generation angrily questioned the right of younger people to “do anything they want,” a luxury not afforded to those who came of age during the Depression and World War II. “Mad Men”: Joan did the right thing 2012-05-29T22:12:00Z

Theodor Seuss Geisel used his art to decry fascism during World War II, but also drew racially stereotyped anti-Japanese cartoons -- illustrations for which he later expressed regret. Melania Trump calls Massachusetts librarian's comments on Dr. Seuss book donation 'unfortunate'  2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

While serving in the army during World War II, Laurents wrote military training films as well scripts for such radio programs as "Army Service Forces Present" and "Assignment Home." 'Gypsy' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC 2011-05-06T03:47:09Z

Renato Gualandi, a chef who cooked a banquet for high ranking allied commanders in World War II is often credited with inventing the dish using ingredients in American soldiers' ration packs. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a reminder that Europe to this day is populated by survivors and perpetrators of World War II — a place of tangled family histories and selective denial, but also intermittent lucidity. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Just as important, he added, is that other countries access the Polish database of its war losses to ensure the return of “any of those objects taken from within Poland’s World War II borders.” Poland Urged to Look for Nazi-Looted Art Still Held in Its Museums 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

The commissioners will vote privately on whether to consider two alternatives to the memorial to the World War II general and 34th president. Design issues delay Eisenhower memorial

Born in 1926 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Kossoff grew up in London’s tough East End and served in the army in World War II before studying art. Artist Leon Kossoff, who painted post-war London, dies at 92 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

By the end of World War II he had become a full-time musician. Toots Thielemans, Who Won Jazz Renown With the Harmonica, Dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Before World War II it was also home to 40,000 Jews, almost all of whom died. Polish philharmonic named for Jewish virtuoso 2012-10-03T16:26:16Z

World War II Foundation chairman Tim Gray says that helped convince Winters to agree to the project. French statue fetes 'Band of Brothers' inspiration 2012-05-28T20:16:05Z

He attended New York University, his time there broken up by two years of Army service during World War II, after which he returned and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aeronautical engineering. Irwin Stambler, 92, Reference Book Writer With Songs in His Heart, Dies 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

She guided the family through the transition common to many African American families after World War II in the migration from the South to California. Kermit Alexander walks into 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' to explore murders of his relatives 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Like his breakthrough novel, “Fatherland,” set in a Nazified Germany 20 years after the Third Reich defeated the Allies in World War II, Harris’s new novel initially seems headed into the realm of fantasy. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ukraine’s entrant, Jamala, is a Ukrainian Tatar, whose song “1944” seems to refer to the mistreatment of that ethnic minority group by Soviet forces in the waning years of World War II. Eurovision Song Contest 2016: A Viewer’s Guide 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Finally, “A French Village” is set during World War II, but far from the front lines. Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Throughout World War II and in the years immediately after, Hollywood produced dozens of rousing, patriotic action pictures about the heroism and noble sacrifice of the American soldier. New on video: Nate Parker's 'Birth of a Nation,' 'Mr. Robot Season_2.0' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kelly developed his artistic vision soon after World War II, when abstract expressionism was emerging as the dominant movement of the time. Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

It now stands silent, the pipes having been donated to various churches as part of their rebuilding efforts after World War II. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Czech capital’s original architecture is quite well preserved, as it was largely spared of the bombings in World War II, giving it an unreconstructed antiquity that our two previous stops lacked. Swapping a boat for a bus to explore Prague, Vienna and Budapest 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

His supplier is Heroics & Ros, a British manufacturer with a catalogue that runs the gamut from ancient Egyptian archers to World War II Romanian fighter planes. Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers

The family managed to leave Hungary before the outbreak of World War II, traveling first to the Dominican Republic and later to Venezuela. Sol Steinmetz, an Expert on Language, Dies at 80 2010-10-25T03:48:00Z

The museum’s starting point was a collection of World War I and World War II posters given by a private donor. New York City museum salutes the art and influence of the poster 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The first of the newly constructed fast battleships to join the American fleet during World War II, the North Carolina fought in every major Pacific battle, earning awards and renown along the way. Wilmington: A little history, a little movie magic and a lot of heat 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

He was a soldier in the German army during World War II, stationed mostly in Bordeaux, France, and serving as a mapmaker. Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

And after all-out wars, who counts the maimed, or the orphans and widows, or those the Japanese in the wake of World War II referred to as the “elderly orphaned” — parents bereft of their children? An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

There’s a suggestion that war plays a role in these disasters, evidenced by both a grisly flashback to World War II and a nod to Vietnam. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Among the more complicated prospects is “Fury,” a World War II film that stars Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman and others, and is set for release Friday by Sony. ‘Gone Girl’ Shakes Off Box Office Cobwebs 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

He worked for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes and wrote four books about World War II. CBS: Andy Rooney hospitalized in serious condition 2011-10-26T00:14:09Z

“Look at that, a documentary about World War II. What are the chances?” he recalled thinking. A German Comedian in London: Working Out the War in Punch Lines 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

It was seemingly commissioned during World War II by the Vichy government. Disney and Segerstrom firing up their organs this weekend 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

This would have powerfully resonated with the German generation that lived in fear of British and U.S. aircraft dropping clusters of bombs at the end World War II. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

He completed one more, “So You Think You Need Glasses,” before spending several years in the Army Air Forces’ motion picture unit during World War II. Richard L. Bare, Director of ‘Green Acres,’ Dies at 101 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

The area had been devastated during World War II and its derelict buildings and factories were razed to build a number of temporary structures for the festival. Where Culture Flows Along London’s River Thames 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The NFL survived World War II but didn’t become the wildly popular sport it is today until many years later. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Initially World War II combatants, they were resurrected in 2004 for the DC imprint Vertigo, this time as a Special Forces unit burned by the C.I.A. | 'The Losers': A Band of Brothers and Zo? Saldana 2010-04-22T23:54:00Z

The show’s title, “The Trauma of Painting,” she said, refers both to the physical trauma of the artwork as well as the psychological trauma of Europe after World War II. Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

A Dutch immigrant — the movie shares tantalizing tidbits about his past in the underground in World War II — Mr. deLeyer tells of hiding Jews in the cellars of family barns in the Netherlands. Review: ‘Harry & Snowman’ Recalls a Man and a Horse of Powerful Haunches 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Dr. Elma York is a World War II veteran who flew planes as a WASP. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Bygraves won fame in Britain's music halls and theaters after World War II, becoming one of the country's best known variety performers and releasing dozens of popular records. British entertainer Max Bygraves dies at age 89 2012-09-01T16:46:03Z

Others, like Anna, who is blond and Germanic-looking, were World War II action figures. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z

Some of the most poignant images from the book are of tree-planting efforts in Berlin and Kiel in the years after World War II, when both cities were still in ruins. Perspective | Appreciating the need for — and the beauty of — the urban forest 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The last time New York saw anything quite like that was with “Allegiance,” the 2015 Broadway musical based on George Takei’s experiences in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Despite coronavirus, 1 musical is holding auditions, online 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

There were complaints about the film’s length and some brief nudity, Mr. Ophuls said, and requests that more focus be put on Russian actions during World War II and American actions in Vietnam. Marcel Ophuls’s ‘Memory of Justice,’ No Longer Just a Memory 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Even more than before, the new mix of scrapbook and reminiscence provides a nostalgia-laden glimpse of American science fiction in its heyday, the half century following World War II. Review | Books make the best gifts. Here are seven surprising choices for the readers on your list. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The storied ship — prized as a feat of engineering and luxury in its time and Churchill's floating battle headquarters during World War II — celebrates the 80th anniversary of its maiden voyage this month. Winston Churchill's paintings star in an exhibit on the Queen Mary 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

SAT Fly-in and display of several vintage military aircraft from several nations from World War II through the Vietnam conflict, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-05-22T21:47:05Z

Tells passionate story about his father’s service as a tail gunner in World War II and wonders whether the country has done enough in the wake of their sacrifice. The zombie apocalypse has arrived, and it’s in Iowa with Rick Perry 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

This film, which was released after the Great Depression and before America’s involvement in World War II, feels oddly relevant at a time when entertainment escapism can feel both necessary and trivial. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Seeing America With Megan Rapinoe’ and ‘The Last Narc’ 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Spanish civil war, which ran from 1936 to 1939, is most notable to historians for how it foreshadowed the horrors of World War II. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

While he was raised in San Bernardino, the artist’s mother was born in Chemnitz, Germany, during World War II and emigrated to California in her 20s. In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

In her writing, Ms. Minco described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II, based on her own experiences. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

As part of the Axis in World War II, it rounded up and deported tens of thousands of Jews, most of whom perished in the Holocaust. Overlooked by guidebooks, Slovakia is a worthy European destination without the crowds 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The supply of beans was cut off during World War II, but once it returned in the 1950s there was another coffee-shop boom. | Tokyo Coffee 2011-12-16T18:09:03Z

Preparation for publication of a book about music and the cultural memory of World War II and the Holocaust in the works and lives of Shostakovich, Britten, Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. These books are brought to you with the help of Uncle Sam. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Then, when I was in grade school, came World War II. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

He is set to direct the feature film “Silver Wings,” about American female pilots in World War II, and is collaborating with rapper Common on the upcoming TV comedy series “93 Til Infinity.” 'Hamilton' original cast and creatives: Where are they now? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

His books wouldn’t catch on with readers until after World War II. Books of The Times: ?Lonleyhearts? by Marion Meade: Lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney 2010-03-18T23:29:00Z

With Documenta’s intentional reference to the station in World War II having been a transfer point for Jewish prisoners sent to concentration camps, clocks and trains took on sinister significance. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

In 1945 he was in Germany to record the aftermath of World War II. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z

The setting, at the height of World War II, is a hotel in Lincolnshire, a gathering spot for Royal Air Force  fighters stationed at a nearby airdrome. Terence Rattigan's 'Flare Path' salutes ordinary valor in wartime 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

World War II interrupted their creative and amorous idyll, though: Ernst was interned in a prison camp and Carrington subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Thousands of bottles are stowed in the seemingly endless, labyrinthine catacomb-like wine cellar, which served as a bomb shelter during World War II. Feasting in Verona, Italy’s city of Romeo and ravioli 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The tune's origins will likely be revealed in the new "Captain America" film, set in World War II. Summer blockbusters present musical challenges 2010-04-19T06:22:00Z

A sailor just home from World War II bends over to kiss a nurse, recreating the renowned 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z

Some of the fiercest fighting in World War I occurred here, and there are still occasional reports of people discovering wines that were hidden from Nazi occupiers during World War II. Perspective | Good champagne goes with pork rinds . . . 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Then, the scars of World War II were still healing. Laughter in dark places at most international Edinburgh Festival yet 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

He did intelligence work during World War II and broke an important German radio cipher. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z

Born in New York City, David attended public schools and NYU, then served in the Army during World War II, mostly as a member of an entertainment unit in the South Pacific. 'Raindrops' lyricist Hal David dies in LA at 91 2012-09-02T21:16:04Z

It also in some measure reinforces the mythology surrounding World War II’s “greatest generation.” The Herculean Effort to Build an American Army 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

World War II movies don’t sell massive amounts of tickets. Box office: 'Interview,' 'Unbroken' and a busy, bizarre weekend 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

In 2015, “The Man in the High Castle” imagined a 1960s in which the allies lost World War II, with Nazi Germany and Japan splitting up the United States. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

While Iida doesn’t overtly comment on her grandmother’s World War II internment-camp experiences, the subtitle of the piece clearly alludes to them. Review: Seattle artist creates entire worlds with paper and scissors 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

“The Commander,” as he was known to his entourage, became the leader in the French aeronautic industry, but World War II put an end to that career. Auctions: At Auction, the Treasures of a Tycoon War Hero 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z

This historical novel about the orphaned German children who sheltered on their own in forests at the end of World War II reminds young readers that there are victims on both sides of war. Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

There’s also Bing Crosby improvising a monologue about liverwurst sandwiches, some bombs falling on World War II Europe, and legendary composer Irving Berlin painting himself into lyrical corners resolved by rhyming “finger” with “humdinger.” Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

There’s a very uncomfortable matchup between computer-generated imagery and the World War II period. Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk Is My Most Experimental Film Since Memento 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

World War II in the Pacific was a war of atrocity. Trying the Japanese for War Crimes 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

In recent decades many historians and theorists have averred that the triumph of abstraction during the two decades after World War II — culminating in Minimalism and Color Field painting — was partly enabled by anti-communist paranoia. Art Review: Montclair Art Museum Shows: ‘Oscar Bluemner,’ ‘New Spirit’ 2013-04-25T20:48:24Z

That sprawling mini-series served up plenty of bloody battles in its first nine weeks as it followed its characters through the Pacific theater of World War II, but the final episode is all about homecomings. The Week Ahead: May 16 ? 22 2010-05-13T14:25:00Z

Her dissertation, about the impact of World War II on Native Americans, grew into her 1991 book, “American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs.” Alison Bernstein, Educator and Ford Foundation Executive, Dies at 69 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The Soviet Union raided Germany and other enemy territory for art troves in the dying days of World War II - and thus indirectly looted tremendous amounts of art confiscated by the Nazis from the Jews. Eastern Europe under spotlight on art restitution 2010-08-02T16:45:00Z

“She was accused of being a traitor after World War II,” said Perry Lam, who edits Muse, a magazine here that in 2008 published a Chang short story for the first time. Chinese Writer Cements a Legacy 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z

Tourism and Haiti may not seem like they go together, but in the years after World War II, the country belonged to the Caribbean highlight reel. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

“White Christmas,” which expressed the ache of nostalgia for World War II soldiers an ocean away from their families, certified his primacy as the pop-music Santa Claus. Bing Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Crosby 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

He started his long and productive life as chemist, working during World War II on the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z

The Village Voice was the brainstorm of the World War II veterans Edwin Fancher and Dan Wolf, both students on the G.I. Jerry Tallmer, Critic Who Created the Obies, Dies at 93 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Graham Moore picked up best adapted screenplay award for his work on The Imitation Game, about World War II code-breaker Alan Turing. Budapest Hotel wins writing award 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in this novel of the Burma-­Thailand Railway of World War II. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

In Copenhagen, this has never fallen out of repertory — and, since World War II, has entered international repertory. City Ballet to Present ‘La Sylphide,’ a Romantic Ballet Standard 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

After his release from prison, a World War II veteran is suspected of a murder he didn’t commit. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The lives of three women who became spies in World War II provide the basis for this historical drama. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Blindspotting’ and ‘Betty’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

The author, who wrote from New York during World War II, was known to be a pacifist. 'Little Prince' discovery offers new insight 2012-05-03T12:27:09Z

They developed in large part after World War II. Many people became homeowners thanks to federal policies like the G.I. America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

“The Minotaur Years” ends before World War II is over. Fourth Time Around: The Final Volume of John Richardson’s Biography of Picasso 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

The mini-series is a chronicle of how Fleming spent the World War II years, but Bond is a sort of ghost character throughout, teasing fans of the books and movies. Television Review: ‘Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond,’ on BBC America 2014-01-28T22:11:21Z

Army soldiers before they went into Germany during World War II. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

His Princeton education was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Army in North Africa and Italy. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

"They thought nobody would believe he would have been in World War II. They said find somebody older. So I got Lawrence Tierney." Director John Avildsen had hard-hitting films before 'Rocky' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

In his 20s, in the unsteady wake of World War II, Boulez lobbed critical grenades even at his heroes. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Yet this is the playful exploration the book inspires . . . along with research that reveals that Spam musubi was created in the mainland World War II internment camps, not in Hawaii as is broadly accepted. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Then there is “Race of Evil,” a three-part, 31-minute work by Nick Hsu, a Taiwanese director, which tells a sinister ghost story about World War II soldiers who are systematically eliminated by a mysterious phantom. A G.I. Joe Short-Film Festival at 92YTribeca 2010-05-07T22:59:00Z

Mr. Brötzmann described his style as a means of exorcising demons — particularly those of Germany’s crimes against humanity in World War II. Peter Brötzmann, 82, Dies; His Thunderous Saxophone Shook Jazz Traditions 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Butoh is a bleak, raw performance art that rose from the physical and psychological devastation of Japan after World War II. In the decades since, its influence has spread, as illustrated by this festival. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

On Saturday evening, the duo will present 1949's World War II film "Twelve O'Clock High," which features a complicated crash by noted stunt pilot Paul Mantz and actual combat footage filmed in Europe by U.S. 'Hollywood Takes to the Air' explores aviation's long history in film 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

An account about visiting the farmers who hid her and her Jewish family from the Germans during World War II suddenly but all too briefly opens up an expansive historical perspective. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

During World War II, Babbitt worked on secret research projects for the government, drawing on his training as a mathematician. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

To many artists and intellectuals, World War II had seemed an absolute conclusion to “Old World” traditions, and the early Boulez was prone to sociocultural positions that were hardly less radical than his music. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Fry and Jackson are also co-operating on a script for a remake of the classic British war movie, "Dam Busters", about air raids on German dams in World War II, Jackson said. Fans cheer Stephen Fry casting in "Hobbit" movie 2011-05-20T02:34:23Z

He also became involved with numerous charities and worked to establish a permanent memorial to the veterans of Britain’s World War II Bomber Command and recorded songs honoring British veterans. Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62 2012-05-21T13:45:00Z

Since a federal commission was formed 11 years ago to create the memorial, the challenge has been to represent Eisenhower as both president and as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II. New images show Ike's DC memorial amid criticism 2012-02-28T20:34:09Z

It will focus on Dalí after World War II — an unusually long late phase when his publicity stunts made him a celebrity but also alienated the art world. Week Ahead: Aug. 1-7 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z

But after World War II the watch companies were expropriated by the Soviet-supported regime. This German Village is a Town Based on Time 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Just before the beginning of World War II, her parents returned to the United States, moving to Pasadena, Calif., and later Beverly Hills, with their son and daughter. Film Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79 2011-03-23T14:00:06Z

A skylight had been covered over during World War II. A dropped ceiling hid steel trusses from which security guards kept their eyes on postal employees. Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Broadcaster Tom Brokaw coined the term “Greatest Generation” to cover those who grew up during the Great Depression then fought World War II. Exhibit captures the poster art of World War I 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

So then World War II comes and then everyone's sad for a while -- a simplification of history -- and then everyone wants to be cheered up, so along came the Beatles, just in time. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

“Having done as much as any man to win World War II, Ike devoted the rest of his public service to keeping America and the world out of World War III,” Mr. Thomas asserts. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z

A $56 million visitors’ center and museum at Pearl Harbor opened Dec. 7 featuring interactive exhibits about the World War II attack that trace the path to war from both American and Japanese perspectives. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z

The Oscar-winning actress and mother of their children was recently named an honorary dame by Queen Elizabeth II and is directing "Unbroken," a competing World War II film. Brad Pitt spits in Galifianakis' face during 'Between Two Ferns' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to think of what was going on in the arts around the beginning of World War II.” They’re Some of Hollywood’s Top Publicists. Just Don’t Ask Them Why. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

My partner and I are students of history, particularly New York City during the World War II years. Hey, Mr. Critic: In Search of History on a Plate 2010-12-30T20:49:21Z

When you step inside the distinctive glass-front National World War II Museum off Magazine Street, you’re swept up in the same emotions that once rushed over them. 3 Must-Sees at the World War II Museum 2012-01-18T15:50:03.177Z

The show also looks at some notable items from the museum’s collection, like a biplane used by the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and a Bible of Nat Turner’s. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Taking the Stage’ and Khloé Kardashian 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The “Dark Horse” singer, 30, stopped by the World War II landmark site Wednesday, which she acknowledged in an Instagram photo of the prisoner barracks. Katy Perry Visits Auschwitz: 'My Heart Was Heavy Today' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

One in four Belarussians died in World War II. The scars of history shaped her. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Clad in nocturnal gray, precast concrete, the $146 million, 57,500-square-foot pavilion looks a bit like a World War II battleship, marooned on the beach. Coney Island’s Newest Wonder: Sharkitecture! 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

He recalled his father, Paul, talking one night about living through the Depression and World War II and describing the conservative climate of postwar America. When Life Throws Those Curveballs 2011-05-27T17:34:12Z

Drafted during World War II, he worked on the production of plutonium for the atomic bomb – a hands-on relationship with the cataclysmic potential of modern science that seems to have shaken him to his core. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Eisenhower was an army general who served in World War II as Supreme Allied Commander before becoming the 34th president. Tom Hanks lends a hand to Eisenhower Memorial in Washington 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Oliver Stone: Very few people know about how strong the English empire was going into World War II. Oliver Stone tackles modern history in new series 2012-11-21T21:52:08Z

He was born on Sept. 7, 1927, in London and evacuated to the countryside during World War II. He started drawing cartoons after becoming a messenger for an art studio. Eric Hill, 86, Dies; Created Spot, a Pup Beloved by Toddlers 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The bunker in question is located on the ground floor of a radio tower on Jersey, erected by occupying German forces during World War II. On the Island of Jersey, Fortifications Turned Lodging 2011-04-01T19:06:34Z

At the end of World War II, the triumphant Gen. Charles de Gaulle designated 1,038 people as resistance heroes. Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Setrakian loses it, sputtering things like, “He was in my sights,” and smashing the Master’s coffin that he himself unwittingly crafted in a concentration camp during World War II.  'The Strain' recap: Face to face with the Master 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He served only 13 months, discharged when the Navy cut back on manpower after the end of World War II. Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

After serving in the Army during World War II, Mr. Maysles graduated in 1949 from Syracuse University in New York state, then received a master’s degree in psychology from Boston University in the early 1950s. Albert Maysles, influential documentary filmmaker, dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Sure, it felt irresistibly young and sassy when it opened during the entertainment-hungry World War II years, with its talented team of newcomers. ‘On the Town' Revival Opens on Broadway 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

His earlier documentaries “Blockade” and “Revue” used archival footage to portray the siege of Leningrad in World War II and daily life under Communism, respectively. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wouk said he was “tickled” to return to Simon & Schuster, which in 1947 published his first book, “Aurora Dawn,” written longhand while he was at sea during World War II. Herman Wouk on His New Book, ‘The Lawgiver’ 2012-11-12T20:06:04Z

HAMBURG, German — Germany’s second-largest city, Hamburg, is awash with history — from emigration to World War II to the Beatles. Discovering ‘undiscovered’ Hamburg 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

His father, who died when Raúl was 12, had been a laborer in the U.S. during World War II, laying railroad tracks from Texas to Mississippi. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Among the lesser-known atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II were boxing matches that forced emaciated Jewish inmates to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the German SS officers. A Boxer at Auschwitz and the Pain He Carried 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

"Casablanca", starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, and set in the Moroccan city during World War II, is one of the most enduring romances in American cinema. "Casablanca" Oscar could fetch $3 million at auction 2012-06-25T21:40:38Z

Ms. Roberts is not the first scholar to bring the sexual side of World War II into clearer view. Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France 2013-05-20T22:19:19Z

A British colonial-era canon will be fired at midnight in a tradition dating from the end of World War II. Revelers start ringing in 2014 with fireworks 2013-12-31T13:58:40Z

Years ago, in graduate school, she said she spent time researching those in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Unit from World War II for her dissertation. The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Nearly all of it was rebuilt after World War II, when it was reduced to rubble, and its architecture is in the ceremonial Stalinist style of the mid-20th century. Banned in Belarus, but the Shows Go On 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Brown’s play imagines an encounter between President Truman and physicist Albert Einstein, as Truman was deliberating over the atomic-bomb attack on Japan that ended World War II. What’s opening, what’s ending on Seattle stages soon 2013-09-13T14:16:08Z

Overnight, it ended, as soon as World War II hit. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

In the second season of this anthology series, the horror of Japanese-American internment camps in World War II is mixed with a ghost story influenced by the Japanese folkloric tradition of kaidan. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Terror’ and ‘Family Pictures USA’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

In the distance, a historic lighthouse; in the foreground, a concrete bunker where, during World War II, sentinels as lonely as the old lighthouse keepers once watched for German submarines. Alexander Gorlin Builds a Dramatic Seaside Home in Nova Scotia 2014-01-16T05:00:00Z

With the end of World War II , the project was revived as a combined arts, convention and sports center west of Pershing Square. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

This was, according to a brass plaque, where the raising of the Dutch flag after World War II sparked street protests against colonial rule. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z

Eva and her mother eventually settled in British-run Kenya, where, after the outbreak of World War II, officials began placing German citizens in internment camps. Eva Monley, Film Location Scout in Africa, Dies at 88 2011-11-21T04:36:17Z

While Allen is primarily associated with computers and music, his passion for World War II planes holds a special place for him. Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:33Z

“Pride” is a descendant of morale-boosting British World War II movies that celebrated people pulling together in hard times. ‘Pride’ Shows the Alliance of a Gay Group and Mineworkers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Since World War II, the United States has been the preeminent actor in world affairs. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

By a steep stone stairway we descend to the Lascaris War Rooms, which preserve a command center and connected network of tunnels built during World War II to provide security from the constant air attacks. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The book, “The Long Take,” by the poet Robin Robertson, mixes verse, prose and photographs to follow the story of a World War II veteran across the United States in the golden era of Hollywood. Man Booker Prize Shortlist Reflects Dark Times 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

His purchases often turned up in the backrooms of galleries and bookstores; dealers after World War II, wary of offending customers, would keep anti-Semitica out of sight. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z

Writing during World War II, George Orwell remarked upon the contrast between the “gentleness” that characterized contemporary English civilization and the “brutality” that had distinguished English life a hundred years earlier. Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Battlefield Friendship Through Violence of World War II “My Way” is a lot of war movie. Movie Review: ?My Way? From the Korean Director Kang Je-kyu 2012-04-20T00:35:48Z

Last week's top film, Brad Pitt's World War II tank drama Fury, fell to three. Ouija board film spooks US audiences 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

With the entry of the United States into World War II, Ms. Wayne moved to Los Angeles, intending to work in the aircraft industry. June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93 2011-08-28T00:23:03Z

During World War II, Lisbon was notoriously riddled with spies, even more like the movie “Casablanca” than Casablanca itself was. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But in the context of Wayne’s career the movie offers an unusually harsh version of the commanding-officer character Wayne began playing during World War II. Video: The Many Shades of Wayne 2011-05-27T17:49:21Z

Yet at the peculiar little Sunday market there are plenty of postcards depicting World War II soldiers who look as though they might have walked right out of a Giorgio Armani show. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

She assisted sailing ships crossing the treacherous Columbia River bar, carried gold miners to Alaska, worked for the Navy in World War II and served the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest. Vintage vessels share MOHAI spotlight 2012-12-29T02:09:05Z

"The Redbreast," "Nemesis" and "The Devil's Star" incorporate contemporary Norwegian life and the country's past, including the fact that some Norwegians actively supported Germany in World War II. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

His father was a flier who was killed in World War II over Cologne, Germany. Mick Farren, British Rock ’n’ Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69 2013-08-01T03:34:55Z

Never mind that most of us will find little practical use for information on quantum mechanics, the military stratagems of World War II or the private lives of British aristocrats. Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

For a generation of young artists flanking World War II, Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina was the California Institute of the Arts of America's avant-garde culture. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Boiardi's company produced canned food rations for American soldiers in World War II, a war effort contribution that earned the chef a Gold Star from the U.S. government in 1946. Petition calls for Cleveland statue of Christopher Columbus to be replaced by Chef Boyardee's 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

They face discrimination and see their lives torn apart by World War II. Seattle, state play key role in Japanese TV miniseries 2011-01-13T16:07:11Z

The reopening will conclude the site’s longest closure since World War II. Paris' Eiffel Tower to reopen on June 25 following coronavirus closure 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

The dramatic story of the painting linked to World War II events played a part in the making of its astonishing price. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

During World War II, it served as a patrol boat off the California coast. See Baja on a Ship With a Past 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

He formed an acrobatic act with his brother and toured Europe until World War II erupted. Tibor Rudas, music impresario who furthered Pavarotti’s career, dies at 94

Trained as a chemist, he worked during World War II on a government project that was producing plutonium for atom bombs. Art Review: Robert Duncan and Jess, and Their Wonderland of Art 2014-01-16T22:59:26Z

“George Orwell: A Life in Letters” is a judiciously chosen selection of some of the most interesting of these casual writings, from a 20-year period that included both the Great Depression and World War II. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z

Those millions of everyday Americans whose sacrifice and heroism led us through World War II can rest easy. 3 Must-Sees at the World War II Museum 2012-01-18T15:50:03.177Z

It must have seemed that the only way to blend into the carefully curated world of post World War II America was to smooth out their surfaces, to hide the messiness of life away. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

But that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during World War II. Whirligig art creator Vollis Simpson dies at 94 2013-06-01T16:51:09Z

An author of popular spy novels and a British secret agent himself in World War II, he married four women from the 1920s through the 50s without bothering to divorce any of them. Review: In ‘Mrs. Wilson,’ an Actress Uncovers Her Grandfather’s Lies 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

He starts with Gen. George Marshall, who led the service in World War II. 'The Generals': Thomas Ricks on the decline of U.S. Army leadership 2012-11-15T22:24:04Z

The history of the CIA since World War II and a housing desegregation fight in Yonkers are two subjects inspiring him now. MacArthur Foundation reveals 2010 'genius grants' 2010-09-28T11:47:00Z

Bennett served in the Army in Germany during World War II and marched for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama in 1965. Review: Tony Bennett's meditations on show biz 2012-11-21T22:00:14Z

At present, they're in a vast room accessible by freight elevator in a building where workers manufactured classified optical and camera equipment during World War II. Silenced musical treasures languish in Mich. vault 2012-01-15T20:18:09Z

In "Winston's War," British historian Max Hastings says things about World War II that Americans don't often hear. 'Winston's War': A different take on Winston Churchill 2010-04-28T23:49:00Z

His World War II experiences — hunger and the dangers of Rome as an “open city” under German and American armies — were reflected in some of his later work. Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

“World Gone By” picks up in the 1940s, with World War II underway and Joe applying his talents to finding ways to profit from it. Review: Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’ Completes a Loose Trio of Novels 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

He worked with Lionel Hampton before serving in the Marines for three years during World War II, and rejoined him in 1946 after his discharge. Joe Wilder, Horn Player, Dies at 92; Elegance Was His Theme Song 2014-05-10T00:40:17Z

With the outbreak of World War II he was called up for military service. Pierre Soulages, Leading French Abstract Painter, Dies at 102 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

During World War II it was an internment center, albeit an elegant one, for high-level Nazi and Japanese diplomats and their families. The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. 2010-08-14T04:58:00Z

The building, which was converted into British military headquarters during World War II before sitting abandoned for 50 years, now sports elegant tiling, sophisticated décor and hand-painted recreations of the building’s original murals. Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Army, which resulted in over 3 billion Field Ration D units being distributed to solders during World War II. Unmeltable chocolate and bean-to-bar: A cocoa expert highlights 3 sweet trends 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

He is a specialist in World War II, with books including “Stalingrad,” ”D-Day” and “The Fall of Berlin.” British military historian wins $100,000 prize 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

In Alabama the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site honors black pilots who risked their lives during World War II even as Jim Crow laws denied them rights at home. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

He fought in World War II. He started a successful oil business. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Though Dr. Broyles does not say so, World War II essentially shattered the notion of classical music as inherently moral. Books of The Times: ?Beethoven in America,? by Michael Broyles - Review 2011-12-18T22:36:08Z

And in 1944, Normandy was the site of a World War II battle that changed the course of history. Savoring Normandy’s hospitality 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The film relates the struggles of Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI, to overcome a debilitating stammer as he took the throne in the years leading to World War II. Hooper earns top DGA prize for `King's Speech' 2011-01-30T11:48:09Z

Inspired by true events during World War II, the show opens with the team’s first mission. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Tell Them We Are Rising’ and ‘The Dog’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

During World War II he served in the Navy and played guitar with an entertainment unit in the South Pacific. Kenny Baker, Fiddler Steeped in Bluegrass Style, Dies at 85 2011-08-01T23:29:29Z

After World War II and the proliferation of the family automobile, motels cropped up along the country’s county roads. Who Wants a Hotel With a Hallway Anyway? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The area surrounding the western campus includes the Amsterdam Houses, a public housing complex that first opened in 1947 for World War II veterans. Lincoln Center, Seeking New Audiences, Plans to Remake Its West Edge 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tinterow, the Houston museum director, noted that the digitization of declassified World War II archives in particular “has opened our eyes and facilitated so much work in this area.” A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The game, set during the Cold War, is the seventh in the "Call of Duty" franchise from Activision Publishing Inc. Earlier games were set in World War II and in the near future. Newest 'Call of Duty' video game sales reach $1B 2010-12-21T19:42:13Z

After World War II, Primavesi emigrated to Canada, where she founded and headed a convalescent home for children. Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

After surviving World War II, the company was faced with growing competition from rivals in Hong Kong and Singapore, so Shaw moved to Hong Kong in the late 1950s to modernize the company. Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw dies 2014-01-07T14:02:11Z

He courted controversy with 2013’s “The Wind Rises,” which is partly the story of the designer of the Zero,a World War II Japanese fighter plane. Review | What ties the magical worlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies together? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

LIMA, Peru — It was the golden age of radio and World War II still raged when Maruja Venegas began broadcasting a show for Peru's children. Peru radio host still broadcasting for kids at 97 2012-11-28T18:10:13Z

Capturing the South after World War II, this novel explores faith, social change, and integrity. Southern Gothic Lit List 2011-09-26T20:20:00.933Z

Yudi becomes an engineer, who, during World War II, draws up plans for Nazi “extermination plants” with subtle, chronic flaws built in. Review: ‘Vilna’ Takes Jewish Prisoners on a Desperate Quest 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

In later life, Clive went on to become a best-selling author with books including KG 200 - which he co-wrote with JD Gilman - about a secret Luftwaffe unit during World War II. Italian Job actor John Clive dies 2012-10-16T11:37:06Z

The Military Aviation Museum is home to one of the world’s largest private collections of World War I and World War II aircraft. A visitor’s guide to Washington area beaches 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Read graduated from Brattleboro High School in 1940 and during World War II served in North Africa, Italy and the Pacific theater. Vermont gas station attendant bequeaths millions to library, hospital 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

During World War II, she and her elder brother Martin were evacuated into the mountains near the Austrian border. Mary Bauermeister, Avant-Garde Artist and Host, Dies at 88 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker, 47, earned his first DGA nomination for the historical drama about World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Clint Eastwood, Richard Linklater nominated for Directors Guild Award 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The chapter is him talking about how what we call World War I and World War II, he analyzes as part of the same war. Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nostalgia and Standing-Still Tennis 2014-02-28T15:00:03Z

World War II is kept at a slight remove, but far from absent altogether, in this Polish film about the power of imagination to keep reality at bay ... if only intermittently. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

In your scene, Secretary Albright, you talk about the dangers of nationalism and your experiences growing up under a fascist government in World War II era Czechoslovakia. Téa Leoni and Madeleine Albright Discuss ‘Madam Secretary,’ Fact and Fiction 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The novel’s premise is that the Axis powers won World War II, leaving the Eastern half of the U.S. ruled by Germany, the West Coast by Japan, and a sort-of-American region left around the Rockies. “They basically stole Phil Dick’s pitch”: Why Amazon’s “Man In the High Castle” might not please die-hard Philip K. Dick fans 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Jolie’s current film, World War II survival drama Unbroken, will be released on Christmas Day. Angelina Jolie and Brad Bit 'Closer' After Latest Movie 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

During World War II, his automotive company manufactured gasoline canisters and armaments for the German military, partly using forced labor. Artists Scrutinize a Collector’s Nazi Family Past 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The political engagement of movie stars and singers of that earlier era was largely limited to charities and entertaining the troops during World War II under government auspices. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

A Latvian émigré who fled Nazi-occupied Riga with her family as a child, Celmins had already painted "T.V.," a fantasy showing an exploding World War II airplane on a television screen. Noah Purifoy's smoldering work of art, 'Watts Riot,' is a powerful reminder on the 50th anniversary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

On the eve of the Passover holiday in March, the Günsbergers opened King Solomon’s Bakery and Deli, the first kosher shop in Prague since World War II. New Kosher Shop Is a Prague Pioneer 2010-07-23T10:00:00Z

World War II had just ended, and the campus was packed with vets, several of whom, it appears, took a shine to Sandra Day. An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The eastern side is largely uninhabited but includes several wineries and a historic World War II defense site. A Quick Island Getaway From Auckland 2012-10-12T23:07:10Z

The oil from whales formed part of the nitroglycerine explosives used in World War II. The magnetic polarity of the earth totally reverses every once in a while, too, we may as well add. Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

I like Unesco ruins as much as I like 1960s ruins or World War II ruins. Special Report: Contemporary Art: French Artist Looks for Beauty in Ruins 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z

After World War II ended, she returned to Rome and edited a literary journal, Mercurio, that published such writers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and Alberto Moravia. The Transgressive Power of Alba de Céspedes 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Lucas received his Vanguard award from actor Samuel L Jackson in recognition of his recent movie Red Tails, about African-American pilots who fought in World War II. The Help dominates NAACP awards 2012-02-20T16:40:40Z

The demands of World War II led to propagandistic nominees like “Main Street on the March!,” Every Film in This Oscar Category Is an Underdog You Can Root for 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

It is August 1944, a critical point in World War II, but she is smitten with a boy, and that overrides everything big and scary that the grown-ups have set in motion in the world. ‘This Beautiful Future’ Review: Love Glows in War’s Shadow 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

They were looted by the Nazis and taken into Poland during World War II. Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to U.S. 2011-02-02T15:26:56Z

Mr. Scott won an Emmy award as the executive producer of the 2002 television movie, "The Gathering Storm" about Winston Churchill in the years leading up to World War II. ArtsBeat: Director Tony Scott Jumps to His Death From Los Angeles Bridge 2012-08-20T06:00:05Z

From 1915 to 1920 she studied at the Art Students League in New York, an intersection point for many circles before World War II. Art in Review: ?PEGGY BACON AND HER CIRCLE? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

Presley emerged at the moment the machinery of post--World War II mass culture began to hum. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But he frequently returned to World War II and Israel. Dan Kurzman, Military Historian, Is Dead at 88 2010-12-25T02:58:28Z

The airmen trained in Alabama at Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, as a segregated unit during World War II. Tuskegee Airman to receive replacement for stolen medal today 2012-04-20T12:12:00Z

His final novel, “Numero Zero,” published in 2015, proposed the notion that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived World War II and lived for many years afterward. Umberto Eco, best-selling author of ‘The Name of the Rose,’ dies at 84 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

There also is a general sense that JFK was the unremarkable playboy brother of Joe, who should have been president had he not died in World War II. "The Kennedys": what the first episode reveals 2011-01-19T18:45:26Z

King’s sprawling narrative loses focus at times, but it regains momentum with the occupation of Odessa by Nazi-allied Romanian forces during World War II — and the destruction of the city’s ancient Jewish community. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

During World War II, he served in the Army's first motion picture unit, making educational and other films under Ronald Reagan. Hollywood producer Arthur Gardner dies at 104 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

The International Association of Art Critics was created in 1950 to revive cultural discourse after World War II, and it became a force in subsequent years with influential members like Dore Ashton and John Perreault. Art Critics: Next Endangered Species? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

The building is the former Palazzo dell’Arte, used by the Fascists during World War II—a fact several visitors pointed out to me. The Violin Museum Is a Luthier’s Paradise 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

During World War II, the “Slav Epic” paintings were nearly lost forever. Czech Artist’s Grandson Sues to Block Loan of Works to Tokyo 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

“I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird,” he said. Netflix Looks to ‘Narcos’ for a New Audience 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The duo also worked on the upcoming World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, with Gibson directing and Wallace co-writing. The Passion of the Christ Writer Hints at Sequel 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The tradition of a New Year’s Day concert dates back to 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, when the philharmonic began performing Strauss-heavy concerts around New Year’s Day. Forget the Ball Dropping in Times Square: Go to Vienna 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Munch brooded and fretted, and though he worked nearly through the end of World War II, his art bristles with the romantic excesses of the late 19th century. Naked and Aflame or Considering Death, Munch Rarely Screamed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In the months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, such a patriotic summons became more urgent. The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the decades after World War II, her influence on American theater was comparable to that of Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, though the two approached the stage from different wings. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

A turning point came in the early 1950s when he accepted Toynbee's offer to come to London and assist on a project about World War II. After two years, McNeill was disillusioned. William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Natalia also recounts his multilayered tale: his village childhood in World War II; his devotion to a tattered copy of "The Jungle Book"; his journey to respected physician in "the City." 'The Tiger's Wife': tales of kindness, brutality, superstition and faith in a Yugoslavian homeland 2011-03-10T01:56:36Z

Rothko worked in the blistering wake of World War II. Bernal, who now lives and works in Northern California, grew up in an era of Colombian civil war. 'Radical Women' at the Hammer Museum is a startling show you need to see, maybe twice 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z

Exuberant recycling of familiar tropes was a huge part of the success of the first “Star Wars” movie, which was part western, part World War II epic and part buddy movie. Perspective | As a classical music critic, I used to think the ‘Star Wars’ score was beneath me. I was wrong. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after World War II that the building began to flourish. Exhibition Review: A View Inside King Kong?s Perch 2011-07-16T00:00:07Z

The pair wrote to one another during World War II - in which Salinger fought as a soldier in the U.S. Letters reveal human side of JD Salinger 2011-01-27T00:16:46Z

The practice became common during World War II, when people were encouraged to reuse materials as much as possible, a spokeswoman for Royal Dansk said. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

When World War II began in Europe, his Jewish family landed in Haifa, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, Spielberg's World War II drama "War Horse" and a new sci-fi/thriller "The Darkest Hour" hit the big screen. Weekend Preview: Chestnuts, Christmas ship 2011-12-21T21:55:04Z

He went to public schools and served in the Marines after World War II before graduating from Penn State, then known as Pennsylvania State College. Samuel S. Vaughan, Publisher and Author, Dies at 83 2012-02-01T23:03:09Z

“Yeah, I guess it is different – it’s like World War II, only the enemy is invisible,” Oliver said. John Oliver blasts Trump's 'irresponsible' handling of coronavirus 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

“Foundation” is built on author Isaac Asimov’s short stories that he started writing just after World War II as a 21-year-old and have gone on to become a cornerstone of the sci-fi genre. ‘Foundation’ based on Asimov’s work thinks big — galaxy big 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

He attended the University of Illinois but left to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II. He was trained as a fighter pilot and served in stateside posts. Bill Richmond, Longtime Colleague of Jerry Lewis, Dies at 94 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

A glamorous survivor of four years as a British enemy alien in France during World War II, married to a French viscount, astonishingly and adulterously dating the British movie star Robert Donat. Books of The Times: In ‘Priscilla,’ Nicholas Shakespeare Looks at Family Mystery 2013-12-26T19:35:00Z

A Marine veteran who served in World War II and the Korean War celebrated his 100th birthday last week. WWII veteran celebrates 100th birthday with a dance: 'I just couldn’t sit still' 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

He enlists in the Army during World War II, returns a decorated hero and then throws himself into a life of crime. Video Game Review: It?s the Same Old Mob, Now Sampled for Gamers 2010-09-05T21:52:00Z

Having survived World War II and a trans-Atlantic crossing, “Town Among Greenery” is once again at risk. A Schiele Townscape in Decline Will be Restored With TEFAF Funds 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Known as Jay Ohanian in his youth, Mr. Connors served in the Army Air Forces during World War II, then attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a basketball scholarship and the G.I. Mike Connors, brawny star of ‘Mannix’ TV detective series, dies at 91 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Turing ended up practically winning World War II for the Allies through his breaking Axis codes, but his methods were so revolutionary that, at least onscreen, they need to run into resistance. Charles Dance on Tywin Lannister's death and Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The post speculated that the start-up must have “taken its inspiration from an unlikely source: the ‘comfort women’ of World War II.” Is this dating start-up sexist? 2014-03-05T00:00:00Z

Having been widowed during World War II, Florence decides to open a bookshop in an English coastal village. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Wall-E’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

He had heard people refer to World War II, but rarely did anybody go into details. The evolution of Tom Hanks

Howard originally worked as a theatre actress and was a broadcaster for the BBC during World War II, before taking to writing in the 1950s. Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies 2014-01-02T18:47:15Z

“Extinction” depicts a war in the future, while “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” uses a little-known aspect of World War II as its hook. War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

"Looking at this show and thinking it's about New Jersey is like looking at Hogan's Heroes and thinking it's a real depiction of World War II." 2010-01-21T07:35:00Z

Receding endlessly into the horizon are the rows of barracks of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a World War II Japanese internment camp near Cody, Wyo. Object Lesson: Hollywood mechanic's rare Japanese internment photos 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Usually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

As it did in so many other areas of commerce, World War II forced transformative market changes when supplies from Europe and elsewhere were cut off. “Modern chicken has no flavor” — let’s make it in a lab 2013-03-17T16:00:00Z

During World War II, Ms. Grumbach’s husband was drafted and she joined the Naval Women’s Reserve, commonly known as the WAVES, an acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. Doris Grumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

His popular solo hits “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano” and “Basin Street Blues” were released after he’d served in World War II. African-American cowboy crooner Herb Jeffries dies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Classic Yacht Association hosts 30 vintage motor yachts on display, many dating from before World War II, most boats open to visitors, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-21T23:35:04Z

Her photograph appears at the end — the same one she sent to him “in a love letter” while he was overseas during World War II. Herman Wouk on His New Book, ‘The Lawgiver’ 2012-11-12T20:06:04Z

The largest of 10 internment camps in the American West that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. Ranger-led caravan tours run daily in summer from the museum. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Is it about World War II, a terminal illness, or national tragedy? The Emmys Have an Oscar Problem 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Too young to volunteer for World War II, he jumped at Korea but always felt he’d missed his moment. ‘Norwegian by Night,’ by Derek B. Miller, and More 2013-05-29T20:35:37Z

“Twelve-year‐old Patty Bergen begins to learn to her genuine surprise that she is a lovable person, ‘a person of value,’ from a German P.O.W. escapee in Arkansas during World War II.” 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Set on the 4th of July near the end of World War II, "Talley's Folly" is the story of an unlikely middle-age romance between two people trying to overcome their emotional baggage and find love. Sarah Paulson leaves TV cruelty to do a NYC play 2013-03-01T17:46:05Z

Things would go very differently for Guitry after World War II, when he was unjustly accused of collaborating with the German occupation forces and subjected to a humiliating public arrest and 60 days of imprisonment. DVDs: Films of Sacha Guitry, a French Charmer, on DVD 2010-07-31T05:00:00Z

As a dabbler in cryptography — he studied it during World War II — he also knew how to write in code. Review: ‘Philip Sparrow Tells All’ Paints a Samuel Steward Portrait 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

His father, Jean Retel Helmrich, was born to a wealthy family in Semarang in what was then the Dutch East Indies, fought against the Japanese during World War II and was interred for three years. Leonard Retel Helmrich?s Documentaries Capture Closed Spaces 2011-09-11T03:36:29Z

He says, "There was World War I, World War II, and this is the fight of my generation." Young women were the "foot soldiers" of the anti-abortion movement and "morally bankrupt" Trump 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

"All the Light We Cannot See" is a World War II novel about children, the kind of undertaking that requires a lot of work to rise above emotional manipulation. 'All the Light We Cannot See' pinpoints 2 lives in war 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Part crime novel, part generational saga, Hirahara’s gutting new novel explores the aftermath of a family’s imprisonment in Manzanar, the World War II internment camp for Americans of Japanese descent. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Fleming had served in British naval intelligence during World War II and began his career as a novelist while living in Jamaica. Latest James Bond scribe says Idris Elba 'too street' to play 007 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Vesuvius; Pompeii’s first excavation in the 18th century, when underground tunnels were dug beneath the building; and the deformations caused by World War II bombs. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Belfast was bombed by the Germans in World War II, and, with the Troubles killing the economy at the end of the 20th century, little was built for decades afterward. Decades after ‘Troubles,’ Belfast blooms with history, resilience 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Tracking down art looted during World War II usually takes decades. Dutch Royal Family Acts Quickly After Looted Painting Is Found 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Coast Guard during World War II and later created the satirical magazine "Sick" which ran through the 1960s and 1970s. Captain America co-creator Joe Simon dies at 98 2011-12-15T22:44:54Z

The shameful World War II internment nearly erased the extraordinary Modernist legacy of Japanese American photographers, working primarily but not exclusively in L.A., which this long-awaited exhibition beautifully restored. The top 10 art museum exhibitions of 2016, plus the worst trend of the year 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Tom Hanks Uses Web to Plot the Future When imagines the future, you might think he sees a desk strewn with Oscars, Emmys and the scripts for a dozen more World War II projects. Tom Hanks Uses Web to Plot the Future 2010-10-01T23:21:00Z

It was only on the prompting of his mother than he enrolled in a drama school after the end of World War II. Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine dies 2012-07-09T08:38:42Z

The Cannes Festival was supposed to start in 1939, but was put on hold until after the end of World War II, launching in 1946. Vive La Cannes! Will Revenues And Oscars Follow The Artistry This Year? 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Rosies, as they were sometimes called, did factory and shipyard work back home while men were fighting overseas during World War II. Washington works — and plays — at Northwest Folklife Festival 2013-05-23T18:05:39Z

David Robert Jones was born on Jan. 8, 1947, in Brixton, a working-class south London neighborhood scarred by World War II bomb blasts. David Bowie dies at 69; mesmerizing performer and restless innovator 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

The name derives from World War II air raid wardens who patrolled territories in the United Kingdom and United States. When Americans land in trouble abroad, these expats step in 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

He writes about historical figures Mr. Ramadan professes to admire and notes the tiny degrees of separation that link them to Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Books of The Times: Paul Berman?s ?Flight of the Intellectuals? 2010-05-02T21:52:00Z

“Very little belonging to the community survived World War II,” Schwartz says. Auction House Suspends Sale of 19th-Century Jewish Burial Records 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Army specialists being hired to succeed the storied Monuments Men of World War II, who recovered millions of European treasures looted by the Nazis. Ukraine War Bares U.S. Army Delay in Creating New ‘Monuments Officers’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The 21 years since World War II have been years of international crisis virtually uninterrupted,” he wrote. Arthur Herzog III, Author of ?The Swarm,? Dies at 83 2010-06-09T04:53:00Z

Born in Philadelphia, Arthur performed in Army theater troupes in World War II, then enrolled at the experimental Black Mountain College, studied at two universities in Italy and trained at the Actors Studio. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z

One of the millions of women who worked in defense plants in World War II and who later relentlessly fought for recognition of those “Rosie the Riveters.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

There is a hilarious analysis of the branding potential of Sealand, a rusting concrete platform in the North Sea, originally built as a British defense fortress during World War II, and now an independent principality. A Quest for Meaning in a Dystopian Era 2010-05-16T15:30:00Z

“Hacksaw Ridge” Director Mel Gibson achieves his lifelong dream of making a World War II movie without any Jews in it. The Rex Reed of Central Texas dares to predict the Oscar for best film 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

He served in the Army Air Corps, first doing routine runs after World War II then, in elite jets, flying more than 100 missions during in the Korean War. Novelist James Salter dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

And what a story it is, one worth reading to further understand the complexity of World War II — and to enjoy the quick wit of a woman you won’t forget. Review | The hottest new book from Iceland is ‘Woman at 1,000 Degrees’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

During World War II he worked as a jig and tool designer. Richard Hamilton, British Painter and a Creator of Pop Art, Dies at 89 2011-09-14T04:55:53Z

Vibe: Business-friendly grandeur in an Ministry of Defense building used by spies in World War II. T Magazine: Artful Lodging 2011-03-22T18:03:21Z

The civic-minded collector in Breslau, which after World War II became the Polish city of Wroclaw, co-founded the Breslau Jewish Museum in the city that had a thriving art scene. Art collected by Jewish lawyer before WWII goes to auction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Army Air Corps where he was stationed in the Philippines at the end of World War II. Comic book artist Gene Colan dies at 84 2011-06-24T13:53:07Z

He learned to read music in an Army Air Corps band during World War II, which helped him land a job after the war in the orchestra of the NBC radio affiliate in Portland. Johnny Smith, Venerable Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 90 2013-06-18T14:13:23Z

Steinbeck worked brief stints as a war correspondent in Africa and Europe during World War II and decades later, in a hawkish vein, in Vietnam. Review | John Steinbeck and biographer William Souder make a perfect pair 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

A captain in the Grenadier Guards in World War II, Viscount Lascelles, seriously wounded, was captured in Italy. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z

The Soviet government, which maintained an embassy in Tokyo during World War II, had seen the devastation in Hiroshima, even before the Americans. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

In this and subsequent issues, he is pitted against some of his former allies from World War II — including Captain America. The Sub-Mariner Turns 80. He’s Still Super. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

This movie, which takes place during World War II, is billed as both a comedy and a drama. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ozark’ and ‘Jack Ryan’ 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Wilbur saw shocking combat in World War II, which was when he began to write in earnest. The Poet of Light 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It has been more than 40 years since Ken Follett first topped bestseller lists with his classic World War II thriller, “Eye of the Needle.” Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

She was also popular with servicemen, white and black, during World War II, appearing more than a dozen times on the Army radio program "Command Performance." Lena Horne helped integrate Hollywood 2010-05-10T05:06:00Z

When the artifacts were returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II, there were 15 objects missing. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Fleming was a spy working for British Naval Intelligence during World War II, and he played a major role in some of the most important subterfuge actions of the war. ‘Ian Fleming:’ James Bond’s creator — author, philander, spy 2013-12-18T23:36:01Z

Carter was intrigued by the modern harpsichords that became briefly popular after World War II, before they became obsolete with the rage for historically minded performances of Baroque music. Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

After phylloxera, winemaking continued to decline with World War I, the Great Depression and World War II in quick succession. From Savoie, White Wines That Refresh Like Mountain Air 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

The rise and fall of a 1980s pop band, the tragic story of two skateboarding champions and an unfinished Alfred Hitchcock film about World War II concentration camps. Five documentaries to watch in 2014 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

It's also a great fact-packed resource for kids studying World War II. The 15 best tween and teen books of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It is hard, too, to countenance O’Donnell’s broad claim that in the years after World War II, people never doubted that the president of the United States was the “leader of the free world.” The Presidential Election That America Lost 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The idea for Liberation Route Europe began in 2008, when two Dutch tourism students found it difficult to obtain information about World War II sites to visit in Europe. Following in the Footsteps of the Allies for D-Day’s 75th Anniversary 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

National Archives is set to unveil newly discovered material related to art works stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Material related to Nazi art theft to be unveiled 2012-03-27T12:55:11Z

I visited and photographed this World War II crash site in 2019. A Personal Pilgrimage to a Downed Warplane in Papua New Guinea 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Aerochrome film, for example, was developed to discover camouflaged soldiers in World War II. Mosse’s thermal imaging camera is internationally classified as a weapon. The Terrible Beauty of Richard Mosse’s Portrait of the Amazon 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Documents found in Cuba reveal more about Hemingway's role in World War II. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T21:27:08Z

This month, among others: a children’s welfare advocate who helped more than 500 mixed-race orphans find homes after World War II and a clothing designer who outfitted Ella Fitzgerald and Eartha Kitt. Perspective | History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Let's think about this before it's just happened — the industrialization of our food system, which happened after World War II. We wanted food untouched by humans. Impossible Burgers, pea protein and cricket flour: How Silicon Valley changed what we eat 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Drafted at 17, he served in the German air force during World War II. Frei Otto, Architect Who Found Inspiration in a Post-War Shortage, Dies at 89 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Sukita: When I was in high school, over 60 years ago just after World War II, my family was poor. See Intimate Photos of David Bowie Throughout His Career 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

World War II was an enormous challenge for America. Perspective | During World War II, baseball players wore two kinds of uniforms 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

For Hanks — a classic baby boomer, born in 1956 — World War II was just a string of long-ago muzzle flashes in black-and-white. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

His unit, the 106th, was the last American infantry division to be mobilized in World War II. Two-thirds of its troops were single men under the age of twenty-three. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

During World War II and just after, the family lived in Port Chester, N.Y., and his paternal grandfather would take him to the theater. Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Fast Co. travels back in time to post–World War II San Francisco in photographs from city native Fred Lyon. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

He also became involved with numerous charities and worked to establish a permanent memorial to the veterans of Britain's World War II Bomber Command and recorded songs honoring British veterans. Bee Gees' Robin Gibb dies after long cancer battle 2012-05-21T01:52:11Z

Mr. Henahan was a World War II fighter pilot who served with the Eighth Air Force in Britain. Donal Henahan, a Music Critic for The Times, Dies at 91 2012-08-20T18:26:36Z

Some of her antiwar sentiments stem from the fact that she lived through World War II in Japan, going to work at a military factory to sew parachutes when she was just 13 years old. Yayoi Kusama, Queen of Polka Dots, Opens Museum in Tokyo 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The arrival of cake mixes in the 1930s was due to a surplus of molasses, but sales really began to rise after World War II, when flour companies broke in to the cake mix market. Why yellow cake is so important to Black celebrations 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Freud served briefly in World War II as an ordinary seaman. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

He joined the Navy and served as a midshipman on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z

The good guys are aided by superior swordsmanship, a stampede of blazing cattle and more dynamite than was exploded in World War II. Postcards from Venice: Movies to Remember 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

“Women in Aviation: ”, a display of rare videos, gear and photographs, features the history of female pilots from the early 1900s to the end of World War II; it will be up through July 8. Spare Times 2012-03-08T23:23:38Z

I just finished a fascinating book about a World War II spy plot. Great writers of spy fiction have often been spies themselves 2010-05-21T20:12:00Z

When the piece had its European premiere in Copenhagen during World War II, staging a work by a Jewish composer about black Americans was seen as an act of provocation aimed at the occupying Nazis. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The string of desert communities that stretches southeast from Palm Springs, framed by mountains and sparkling in 354 days of sunshine a year, has been the playground of the well-heeled since World War II. Parole battle pits Sinatras against killer of singer's close friend 2010-07-24T22:34:00Z

Diana traveled to the U.S. with him and fought in World War II. Her weapons were defensive–bracelets capable of deflecting bullets and the Lasso of Truth, which allowed her to acquire intelligence. Wonder Woman Breaks Through 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The first takes place in the aftermath of World War II, as two soldiers find solace in each other’s arms. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Affair’ and ‘Parts Unknown’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The museum opened in 1997 as a tribute to victims of the Holocaust and survivors’ lives after World War II. Director of Museum of Jewish Heritage to Step Down 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

This affectionate memoir, written by a friend of Woodie Guthrie who sailed with the singer on multiple voyages during World War II, details harrowing storms and torpedo attacks. Making “Manhattan Beach” 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The memorial, with World War II exhibitions and themes that emphasize reconciliation, refused to remove the sculpture, which was lent to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next year. An Outcry in France Over a Statue's Kiss 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Of all the great female designers whose careers straddled World War II, the best known and most celebrated is Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. Fact-laden Schiaparelli biography gives little shape to the woman or her designs

“The bamboo handle bag was created after World War II. It was a time of the rebirth of beauty.” This Is Not the End of Fashion 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Critics hailed it as a landmark and said it illustrated how much Vienna had changed since the end of World War II, a decade earlier. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The marriage fell into a grim pattern during the World War II years: Dixie was mostly drunk; Bing was mostly gone. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Gibb was a history buff who had worked overtime in his last few years to help create a permanent memorial to the flyers and crew who served during World War II. Late Bee Gee Robin Gibb hailed in native Britain 2012-05-21T13:11:10Z

His mother was “put into an insane asylum temporarily,” and his father, a World War II vet, is absent. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Born on 30 August 1919 in Bayreuth, Wagner studied the trumpet and French horn before being sent to fight on the eastern front early in World War II. Bayreuth leader Wagner dies at 90 2010-03-22T12:35:00Z

“Whenever you think about World War II and World War I, you think about white people,” he said. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Soul!’ and the Golden Globes 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Army as an infantryman in Europe in World War II. Prolific fantasy writer Russell Hoban dies 2011-12-15T18:02:10Z

His father was a naval lieutenant in World War II who later worked for a shipping company in Hamburg. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

There is also a work by Henry Sugimoto, a Japanese-American artist who was held in an internment camp during World War II. “The connection to the present is obvious,” Mr. Horowitz said. Worlds of Oppression Are Interwoven in a New York Show 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

The film’s before-and-after pictures of joyful, carefree young men reduced to haunted, hollow-eyed skeletons covered with the lesions of Kaposi’s sarcoma evoke World War II photos of concentration camp prisoners. | 'We Were Here': ?We Were Here,? a Documentary About AIDS in San Francisco - Review 2011-09-08T23:58:13Z

And that’s not even counting its occupation by czarist Russia in World War I, Nazi Germany in World War II and a short-lived Ukrainian nationalist group in 1918. Stalinist Crimes in Ukraine That Resonate Today 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

He’s surrounded by all the trappings of a World War II drama — the weapons, the training montage, the bloodshed. How Trailers for Oscar Nominees Make Their Cases 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

One display includes the satirical Royal Order of Whale Bangers medal, given to World War II bombardiers who accidentally killed a whale instead of sinking a submarine. Military museums grapple with a mission that’s only getting more complex 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

This film is about Paris relatively soon after World War II. The story is about a 10-year-old girl named Zazie who visits her uncle and her aunt in Paris for the weekend, and shenanigans ensue. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

And Atkinson acknowledges that the Revolutionary War, a means to separate from the English rather than a desire for conquest, differed from World War II “in magnitude, breadth, and consequence. “ Historian Rick Atkinson digs deep into Revolutionary War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

By 1939, as World War II began and global unrest set in, it became clear that the Machine Age wouldn’t fix society’s problems. A century after art deco’s birth, designers say we’re due for a revival 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

His son Chip found his father's war correspondent uniform from World War II buried deep in a closet. Univ. of Texas exhibit showcases Cronkite career 2010-05-14T12:01:00Z

After World War II, in the U.K. every workplace had childcare in it because the men were off on the front and they needed women in the workplace. The future of sex 2012-09-19T19:20:00Z

June 7 Re-enactors in period uniforms, vintage military vehicles and encampments, kids’ activities, veterans of World War II honored, 10 a.m., June 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Flint collects slag and shards there in a World War II canvas ammunition bag, and he pores through local archives to research the area’s history. Collectors Find Historical Value in Broken Glass 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Among the obstacles to that goal was her imprisonment with her family at two different Japanese American internment camps during World War II. In one of them, she graduated from high school. Form, function and the feminine 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Binet’s love of history was instilled in him by his father, a teacher who would entertain him with factual stories about World War II and the Hundred Years’ War. How a French Novelist Turns the Tables on History 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

A World War II British Army nurse, Claire now uses her skills as a healer to tend to the many residents of Fraser’s Ridge. Review | Diana Gabaldon’s ‘Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone’: Worth the wait? 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the decades that followed World War II, the Cold War and the power of American markets gave the rest of the world a distinctively limited role in American law. Stephen Breyer’s ‘The Court and the World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Her first husband was killed in World War II. She divorced her second but kept his surname. Jan Wallman, Village Cabaret Owner, Dies at 93 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Her father had been a prisoner of war, captured by the Germans in World War II, and the trauma of what he witnessed shaped his worldview and his work. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

After Japan’s defeat in World War II, the country again underwent drastic changes. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Most Saturday mornings, former Kansas senator Bob Dole greets fellow veterans at the southern entrance of the National World War II Memorial, shaking hands and posing for photos with a steady stream of visitors. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Now a museum, the shipowner’s mansion is the only 18th century building to survive World War II. Tickets around $5. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

For decades after World War II, such information was virtually impossible to access. John Prados, Master of Uncovering Government Secrets, Dies at 71 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

And an old book, “Evidence in Camera,” by Constance Babington Smith, the story of photographic evidence during World War II. The latter two are for research for a novel. Kate Atkinson: By the Book 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

And after World War II, the Simon and Kirby Studio’s goal was to meet its clients’ demands for more pulp-paper hits. A Fresh Look at Schulz and Kirby 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

One of the most misremembered aspects of World War II is the notion that relations between the military and the news media were smooth then. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Lansbury began studying at a British drama school as a teen, but she and her family left for America during World War II. Angela Lansbury's spirit and star power burn as bright as ever 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

Zamperini was a Los Angeles high school track star who served as a bombardier in World War II and who raced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Angelina Jolie signs up Skins star 2013-07-11T14:04:03Z

Attractions include festivals, nightlife, ancient stone architecture, a rollicking Carnival in February and other festivals, plus World War II history, including scuba diving to wartime wrecks. Top travel destinations of 2018, from Malta to Moscow to Minneopolis 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Gooding stars in an upcoming movie called "Red Tails," about the legendary airmen, America's first black fighter pilot group in World War II. Cuba Gooding Jr. to join NYC Veterans Day Parade 2011-10-31T23:42:31Z

Advertisement In any case, Mr. Gross, a Jew who as an American serviceman had flown bombing missions over Germany during World War II, developed a collegial relationship if not a friendship with Speer. Gerald Gross, Who Published Memoirs of a Hitler Associate, Is Dead at 94 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Sullivan, a poet and the prizewinning author of books including “Stalin’s Daughter” and “Villa Air-Bel,” about a safe house in Marseille during World War II, is amply qualified to resituate readers in reality. A Strong New Lead in ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

It is so good, and I say this in possession of a bookcase full of World War I and World War II nonfiction. Remembering the ‘Good War’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Hett’s history puts Hitler at the center of the story of World War II, explaining that he not only desired war but actually lusted for it. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

That confusion seems likely to persist given her book’s subtitle: “The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer.” War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Wildlife recording flourished after World War II, especially in Britain, where a society was formed in the 1960s, its members regularly rising before first light to capture dawn choruses. London, as You’ve Never Heard It Before 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

BORDEAUX, France — On the walls inside of a former World War II submarine base, a huge Gustav Klimt tree expands its branches and a gold Paul Klee fish floats by. Famous Paintings Go on Show, Without a Canvas in Sight 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

During the World War II occupation, the family lived in the palace together with high-ranking Nazi officers, while actively fighting against them in the underground movement, according to past curators. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z

It took a pause for World War II, and with the whole world a smoldering wreck and the U.S. standing proud we had nothing to fear for a while from foreign dominance. Why authors lost the book wars long before Amazon’s dustup with Hachette 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

That attack led to America’s entry into World War II in the Pacific and European theaters. Pearl Harbor's 80th anniversary: Veterans share why America must 'unite' today 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

But the distilleries, and the style, disappeared after World War II and the consolidation of the whiskey industry in Kentucky. Maryland Rye Whiskey Has Finally Returned. But What Was It in the First Place? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

He spent part of World War II in the countryside and later returned to the city, where he worked as a messenger at an illustration studio. Eric Hill, writer and illustrator of ‘Where’s Spot?’ and other children’s classics, dies

He was described as a pilot in the French military during World War II and a civil engineer early in his career. Andre Courreges, 92, French fashion designer known for miniskirt, dies 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

The Oscar winner for "The Fighter" portrays an American priest in the World War II movie set in the city of Nanjing. Director lauds Christian Bale for China film work 2011-05-04T11:54:08Z

During World War II he was initially assigned to the Naval Research Laboratory, where, his son said, he helped develop radar for all-weather fighter aircraft, but later also served as a test and combat pilot. National Jazz Museum Acquires Savory Collection 2010-08-16T19:08:00Z

In this National Book Award finalist, a teenager living in a Catholic orphanage in Chicago during World War II shares space with the ghosts that haunt the place. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Saturday features the Berry Fun Run and a Fly-In and Car Show with antique, classic and contemporary aircraft, classic cars, and World War II vehicles and equipment. Blackberries everywhere at Bremerton Blackberry Festival 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

“I recognize my father in this picture,” the composer Michael Gordon said during a recent interview, turning through a shoe box of photographs that were taken in Poland before World War II. A Composer’s ‘Travel Guide’ to His Family’s Unspoken Past 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

The origin of female voices in navigation devices dates back to World War II, when women’s voices were used in airplane cockpits because they stood out among the male aviators. Family Matters: Turn Right, My Love 2010-06-25T17:20:00Z

Some of them were soldiers fighting for America in World War II at the same time that America was putting their relatives in camps. Daniel Dae Kim on ‘Asian-Americans’: Ugly History, Relevant Again 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Potsdamer Strasse, one of the busiest streets in Berlin before World War II, has long been known for its abundance of streetwalkers, sordid sex shops and strip clubs. Five Places to Go in Berlin 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Before World War II and during the Cold War, Bulgarians and Soviets designed bomb shelters in the basements of apartment buildings throughout Sofia, with separate spaces for each family. Breathing New Life Into Bulgaria’s Cold War Bunkers 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

It is both a peppy celebration of can-do spirit and a more somber exploration of what American servicemen experienced when they marched home from World War II. Review: Singing and Dancing the Postwar Blues in ‘Bandstand’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The National World War II Memorial, which opened in 2004, cost more than $180 million, and the price tag for the recently opened memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower was $145 million. Perspective | With $250 million initiative, Mellon Foundation wades into monuments controversy, hoping for positive change 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

There was speculation that maybe it happened during World War II, given the setting. The Treasure Behind the Wall 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Schindler and other modernist architects began making a noticeable mark on Los Angeles in the decades before World War II, a good number of the city's major public buildings were already in place. An Appreciation: Architect Donald Wexler made Palm Springs modern 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The damaged theater, the designer said, suggested Coco Chanel coming back after World War II to find Paris looking forlorn — and, after a shaky start, she rebuilt her fashion house. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z

The British actor, who served in World War II and then had a long entertainment career, died at a retirement home for actors in London, his talent agency said. Peter Sallis, voice of ‘Wallace and Gromit,’ dies at age 96 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

There are also extensive fortifications from World War II to explore, and a nine-hole golf course open past midnight. Music Festival on Arctic Archipelago in Norway 2010-06-25T19:03:00Z

At the peak of operations during World War II, 75,000 men and women were building the Iowa and the Missouri, on which the war ended in the Pacific. Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand: Walk Its History 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

The city and the surrounding region absorbed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from southern Italy who moved north in search of work after World War II. In a Fading Industrial Past, a Chance for a Rich Future 2011-03-21T12:35:04Z

Rock is set not in World War II but today. ArtsBeat Blog: Rating the No. 1's: 'Batgirl' and More 2011-09-08T19:21:23Z

But beyond Frank’s account, there are tens of thousands of World War II diaries remaining in archives, said Dekker. Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Plastics, which were virtually unused in US households before World War II, became a good way for chemical companies to keep their wartime production moving to a new market. More than just litter: The relationship between plastic and climate change 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

She also worked for MI6, the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service, during World War II and for the 11 years following the war, the blog post said. World’s oldest cricket player turns 110: ‘I’ve been so lucky in my life’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Along the way he raises some valid points, notably that Americans too easily overlook the Soviet contribution in waging and winning World War II. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z

The show also addresses the Hunterian Museum’s partial destruction — and the resulting loss of much of its collection — due to bombing during World War II. In Transit: London Museum Revisits Lost Collections 2011-04-10T10:00:48Z

But with the enactment of the GI Bill, the end of World War II and an ocean of returning vets, the landscape changed. ‘Fail State’ Review: Schools That Don’t Make the Grade 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

We probably have too many books about the Civil War and World War II, but certainly could use closer examinations of our less understood conflicts. How Military Quagmires Have Caught Mighty Powers by Surprise 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Not since Saving Private Ryan has a movie depicted the battlefields of World War II in as much graphic horror as Mel Gibson’s forthcoming release and return to the director’s chair after a decade-long hiatus. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

He served very briefly in the British Army during World War II, but was soon discharged as unfit — his commanding officers said he was simply incapable of violence. Ronald Blythe, Scribe of the English Countryside, Dies at 100 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

After World War II, however, the set was sold at auction and disappeared. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z

Drafted into the Army during World War II, Gorey served as a clerk in Utah before enrolling at Harvard, where the poet Frank O’Hara became a roommate and a close friend. A New Biography Takes on Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and Master of the Comic Macabre 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

In 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II, Americans were eager to aid the war effort. Heroic dog is honored 75 years after saving the lives of U.S. soldiers 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Ben Macintyre is the reigning champ when it comes to attention-grabbing World War II spy stories that are stranger than fiction. Books of The Times: ‘Double Cross’ and ‘Agent Garbo’ 2012-08-08T22:28:33Z

The doll appears in animated World War II fantasy sequences set in a miniature Belgian village that Hogancamp built as a form of art therapy. So long, Michael Scott. Here comes Steve Carell, Serious Actor. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

He studied art at Marietta College in Ohio and was in basic training when World War II ended. Cosmo Allegretti, ‘Captain Kangaroo’ Actor and Puppeteer, Dies at 86 2013-08-08T14:04:03Z

That count does not include works looted by Nazi troops during World War II. 'Stealing Rembrandts': the theft of uncommon paintings by common thieves 2011-08-24T20:37:04Z

World War II drama “The Darkest Hour” and comedy-drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” each got nine nominations. 'The Shape of Water' leads nominations for Britain's BAFTA awards 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

A decorated World War II hero shocks his community when he kills his friend and refuses to divulge his motive. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Those figures, according to that Pew report, represented a significant trend reversal that started right after World War II. ‘The Waltons’ Meets ‘Modern Family’ 2012-08-31T21:26:48Z

During the years before World War II, she absorbed plenty of top-secret table talk — Mussolini was a dinner guest — about weapons systems. Books of The Times: ?Hedy?s Folly,? by Richard Rhodes - Review 2011-12-13T22:23:15Z

“The Huntress” is sure to be a hit with fans of commercial World War II fiction. Review | In ‘The Huntress,’ a dangerous Nazi goes on the run 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Opening with a fabulously customized lowrider from 1970 by Jesse Valdez Jr., this exhibition reaches back to before World War II with drawings by Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z

Born in Canada in 1923, Hiller served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II before returning home to enroll in college and pursue his career in show business. 'Love Story' Director Arthur Hiller Dies at 92 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

In Christian Blackwood’s “Nik and Murray,” Nikolais recalls how after World War II painters and sculptors began to move beyond their specific idioms. 2010-01-29T04:40:00Z

Danson will play a county sheriff and World War II vet and Smart will play the matriarch of a powerful Minnesota crime family assuming the seat of power now that her husband is dying. Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson and Jean Smart join 'Fargo's' second season 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Aviator Bar attracts servicemen and women from nearby Maxwell Air Force Base with its military theme: sandbag-ringed nooks with World War II vintage photos and model airplanes hanging from the ceiling. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

De Perignon’s debut recounts her quest to recover her family’s art collection after learning that paintings owned by her great-grandfather may have been stolen by Nazis in World War II. Newly Published, From Virtual Worlds to a History of Clothing 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

However, while World War II allowed for expanded opportunities to meet people and encourage relationships among strangers, the pandemic restricted contact and connections. The Disruption of Weddings, Then and Now 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

He moved to the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, and later returned to teach at Warsaw University before being exiled for political reasons in 1968. Sociologists Bauman, Touraine win Spanish award 2010-05-27T16:31:00Z

He took the pen name Mizuki from the name of a guesthouse in which he stayed as he developed his early work after World War II. Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The first four episodes made available to critics focus on World War II and the cold war, but the series, like the book, spans World War I to the Obama administration. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z

It was well reviewed, but it drew fire when Ms. Callil equated the treatment of Jews by the French during World War II with that of the Palestinians by Israel. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

One shows the name of a woman’s 89-year-old friend born in Ukraine, who survived harsh situations in World War II before becoming a community college professor in New Jersey. Stitching ‘HOPE’: Woman creates quilt to honor coronavirus victims and front-line workers 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Until 1968, Mr. de Gaulle was primarily associated with the resistance in World War II, but in ’68 he tried to repress the strikes with armed police officers. Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“The Cruel Sea,” about the British Navy convoys during World War II, is still a classic. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z

This second volume of a comprehensive biography of Hitler thoroughly recounts the dramatic events of World War II, the Holocaust and the defeat of Nazi Germany. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Many members settled in Estonia after the Russian Revolution, and as World War II approached in the late 1930s, Mr. Apraxine’s immediate family moved to Brussels. Pierre Apraxine, Assembler of a Remarkable Trove of Photos, Dies at 88 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Navy for two years during World War II before attending the University of Alabama, where he studied theater. Seattle actor and Tony nominee Clayton Corzatte, 86 2013-04-11T05:36:27Z

But the musical salesman population declined dramatically in the decades after World War II, when large grocery stores replaced street markets and city governments stopped including stables in their urban planning. At the Folklife Festival, arabbers peddle fruit with a musical flourish

It was not until after World War II that “ethnic” white women were viewed as being able to equal the beauty standards applied to “real” white women whose ancestry derived from northern and western Europe. Condemn white supremacy? Great! But no special credit, white people 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Amid World War II, canned goods were sent to soldiers overseas, and according to the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association, "Americans were encouraged to purchase frozen foods." On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

After World War II, under a military dictatorship, Venezuela was pumping out oil and frantically building up its cities. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

“We think of ourselves as being different people, ethically, than our grandparents and great-grandparents who supported the destruction of Hamburg and Dresden and Tokyo during World War II,” Press added. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z

Enhancing the movie’s story line, Mr. Wheeldon and the book writer, Craig Lucas, concocted a transporting musical that turns Paris just after World War II into a kaleidoscope of romance. In NYC This Weekend? Here Are 2 Art Shows, 2 Operas and 5 Plays 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

In World War II, millions of refugees fled European fascism. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

We tend to think of America as occupying other countries — Japan and Germany after World War II, Afghanistan and Iraq more recently. Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

I thought of going back to World War II, and the idea of survival — that survival is actually a synthesis between winning and losing. Mike Cloud: Painting Outside the Safe Space 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

After World War II, Colonial Williamsburg became a patriotic shrine and “symbol of democracy in the troubled world,” as a top executive put it. Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

During World War II, domestic whiskey and gin distilleries were ordered to stop production to help the war effort, and rum—frequently low-quality rum—filled the void. I am a bartender who loves rum and Coke. Here’s why you should, too 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

But artists and audiences are still taking the time to recall World War II — and not just by watching Brad Pitt in “Fury.” Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form

The World War II recording is from the second Battle of Guam in which the U.S. forces retook the island from the Japanese. US library to save recordings from Tupac, Cosby 2010-06-23T06:16:00Z

“Sullivan’s Travels,” written and directed by Preston Sturges on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, with the Great Depression very much in mind, remains the definitive celebration — and debunking — of Hollywood-style populism. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

At 18, he went into the Army, serving in Europe during World War II. Jimmy Roselli, Italian-American Singer, Dies at 85 2011-07-10T20:30:58Z

This is Old Blood and Guts, one of the most fiery commanders in all of World War II? Critic?s Notebook: ?In Vibrant Color? - Harry Warnecke - National Portrait Gallery 2012-03-13T17:09:46Z

It wasn’t until after World War II that pieces by female composers other than Cécile Chaminade were likely to be found in popular piano anthologies. Filipina pianist Cécile Licad in recital at Dumbarton Oaks

Neiman was a World War II veteran who took part in the Battle of the Bulge. In pictures: LeRoy Neiman 2012-06-21T10:33:14Z

Near the end of World War II, Mr. Starker and his parents were dispatched to an internment camp on an island in the Danube outside Budapest. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z

Plagued by a nervous stammer, he enlists the help of a speech therapist and is eventually able to lead the country into World War II. "King's Speech" wins top Toronto film fest prize 2010-09-19T21:39:00Z

The Italian figural artists’ independence asserted itself right through World War II into its immediate aftermath. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

Titus was one of 10 artists commissioned by King Charles III to create portraits celebrating members of the Windrush Generation — Commonwealth subjects invited to rebuild Britain following World War II, who then often faced discrimination. From Punk Band to Portraits for a King to Gagosian: Honor Titus Breaks Out 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Our parents, both are veterans of World War II were good Jews. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Brown said the vendor, who is in his 60s, believes his parents bought the painting some time before World War II, when Victorian art was often dismissed as garish and sentimental. Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 2011-11-15T00:02:10Z

While serving during World War II, he was cast in Moss Hart's Air Force show "Winged Victory," along with many other future stars. John Forsythe of film and TV fame dies at 92 2010-04-02T19:02:00Z

It was torn down when the yard expanded during World War II. Great Flemish Revival buildings. Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand: Walk Its History 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

They sang when World War II made them practice with dark-curtained windows and members were missing because they were serving overseas. Robust heritage sings strong for Norwegian Male Chorus 2014-01-20T03:58:28Z

Presented at the Deutsches Haus at New York University alongside short lectures, the series focused on “Jewish and Jewish Communist composers of the World War II era.” Music Review: Opera Moderne Completes Its ‘Red Scare’ Series 2012-06-17T22:12:58Z

The largest expenditures for World War II veterans were in the mid 1980s.” We live in the Age of Trauma 2013-05-01T23:30:00Z

Born on April 16, 1940, a week after the start of Nazi Germany’s World War II occupation of Denmark, the infant princess became a symbol of hope to many Danes in the war years. In shadow of pandemic, Danish queen marks 50 years on throne 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Filled with powerful archival images, the book also sensitively describes the historical context: the players in World War II, the effects of radiation sickness and the details of postwar American occupation of Japan. The best children’s and young adult books this month 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Just before World War II, the family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Beverly Hills. Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour 2011-03-26T17:35:55Z

While the stories are seemingly quiet, they are all set against the backdrop of violence, from World War II to present-day fights for independence and confusing acts of terrorism. Paul Yoon's 'The Mountain' is quiet, restrained and howling beneath the surface 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

The original Rin Tin Tin died in 1932, but his puppies carried on his name as well as his career in radio, then talkies, and after World War II, television and reruns. 'Rin Tin Tin': The legend of a darn fine dog 2011-10-12T21:59:06Z

When tour buses carrying veterans from San Antonio and Austin pulled to the curb, volunteers helped the elderly men and women into wheelchairs and pushed them into the World War II Memorial. Bob Dole leads the fight for Ike 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

It began with two young women, each embarking on marriage in the halcyon days at the end of World War II. “Tigers in Red Weather”: Massachusetts gothic 2012-07-15T21:00:00Z

One bombmaker with a conscience was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II, which created the first atom bomb. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z

The song describes torturous experimental surgeries performed by the Nazi physician Joseph Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Jeff Hanneman, Guitarist for Slayer, Dies at 49 2013-05-04T02:34:45Z

Census Bureaustopped asking questions about religious affiliation after World War II. Census: Independent evangelicals one of the largest religious groups 2012-05-02T12:45:00Z

Charles F. Wilkinson’s “Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations” is a surprisingly encouraging book about cultural revival and Native people making and taking power since World War II. Those are all background. Rebecca Solnit: By the Book 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre; and Fury occasionally prints the legend. Review: In Fury, Brad Pitt Wins World War II, Again 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

It was a playground for Northern robber barons, but after World War II it was largely abandoned. Q&A: Frances Mayes on the Lure of Southern Landscapes 2014-04-24T17:45:21Z

The Japanese occupation of the Aleutian Islands was one of the least-known aspects of World War II, thanks to a U.S. government censorship campaign designed to forestall civilian panic about enemy encroachment on American soil. ‘The Wind is Not a River’: epic war story in the Aleutians 2014-01-23T22:16:55Z

Lutz is the son of a Swiss banker who was stranded in the U.S. with his family during World War II. The Ultimate Car Guy Parks It 2010-03-03T23:27:00Z

Based on the best-selling novel by William Boyd, it weaves a double strand of intrigue set at the eve of World War II and in the 1970s. Sundance Channel is 'Restless' with new miniseries 2012-12-05T14:34:10Z

The factory produced steam turbines until World War II, when, as was the case in most German industries, the Nazis converted the production to armaments and the AEG exploited slave laborers. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z

Set not long after World War II, the story imagines George Orwell visiting the United States to promote his newest book, “Animal Farm.” Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Many writers besides Sansom and Harris have considered alternate histories of World War II. Happily, Sansom has an original and impressive voice. Cure for the post-holiday blues: captivating crime fiction 2014-01-08T23:06:28Z

“This sport took off in our country after World War II. It was created for affluent white soldiers who experienced it in France and Europe.” Who Gets to Ski? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

And he is pleased that The Pacific has fulfilled an obligation to our World War II vets. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

It was May 3, 1945, in the tense final days of World War II. Journeys: German Town Where Opposing Soldiers Prevented Destruction 2010-05-28T07:49:00Z

He attended the University of Richmond before serving in the Army in Europe during World War II. Earl Hamner Jr., Virginia-born writer who created ‘The Waltons,’ dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

And though a century-plus life could have lent itself to bloat, the book is a speedy 290 pages, and more or less wraps up its timeline with World War II. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Faulty waterproofing was one thing; Le Corbusier’s decision, after the German occupation of France during World War II, to assume a cabinet minister-type position overseeing habitation and urbanism in the Vichy government, was quite another. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“The castle was nearly completely destroyed at the end of World War II,” she said, “including the room we are standing in now.” In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z

The World War II film "Fury" probably won't tank at the box office this weekend. 'Fury' should top 'Gone Girl' at box office this weekend 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Her father was wounded during World War II and worked afterward as a ticket inspector on city buses; he died when his daughter was 18, shortly after she had completed her famous play. Shelagh Delaney, Playwright, Dies at 72 2011-11-25T02:20:01Z

During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy but was demobilized because of a kidney ailment. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

During World War II he was conscripted into the army, but fled and went into hiding with the help of his parents, who were active in the resistance. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The composer Benjamin Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, actually had musical scores confiscated during World War II by British customs inspectors, who suspected that they concealed illicit code. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

The military is part of Ayer's DNA — his grandfather served in World War II, and Ayer himself worked on a nuclear submarine after joining the Navy at 18. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

His mother, the former Lillian Charlotte Eaves, was a homemaker; his father, Charles Richard Watts, was in the Royal Air Force and, after World War II, became a truck driver for British Railways. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

But on the night of Nov. 23, 1943, the museum fell victim to the bombing raids of World War II. From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin 2011-02-05T14:35:00Z

Kharyova shuddered as she recalled the horror of World War II and the tensions of the Cold War. Octogenarian Russian babushka embraces World Cup role 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

He grew up in privilege on the north shore of Long Island, graduated from Princeton, served in the Army during World War II and embarked upon a long life of constant reinvention. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ at His Work 2013-04-28T16:18:48Z

She has been photographed wearing the black-and-orange St. George ribbon, a symbol of the Russian military that has become popular among Putin supporters, and a T-shirt celebrating a victory in World War II. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Graham’s grandparents were sent to Japan as missionaries after World War II, and her mother, who died in 2005, spoke fluent Japanese and worked as a buyer for a department store in Japan. Lauren Graham’s Taste of Tokyo 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Set four decades later, the sequel will see the haunted Eel Marsh House used by the government to shelter a group of evacuated children during World War II. Irvine cast in Woman in Black sequel 2013-04-29T15:39:00Z

Craig Lucas’ book for the musical sets the story right after World War II, as the City of Light is trying to return to normalcy. Gene Kelly's widow recalls magic of the film 'An American in Paris' as the stage version comes to SoCal 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The motor operated throughout significant events in 20th-century American history, including World War II, Vietnam and the civil rights movement. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

He served in the Army in the Pacific during World War II and received decorations including the Bronze Star Medal, his son said. Frederick G. Ruffner Jr., titan of reference books, dies at 88

Her father, a World War II officer who endured segregation and discrimination and was later appointed to the Federal Reserve Board by President Jimmy Carter, always struggled with the burden of race. Susan Rice Recounts Making Policy at the Highest Levels 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The World War II film "Fury" starring Brad Pitt pulled in $1.2 million in Thursday night showings, putting it on track to top the box office this weekend. 'Fury' grosses $1.2 million in Thursday night showings 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The story of a singing Austrian family trying to escape the Nazis prior to World War II won five Oscars in 1966. Sound of Music auction makes $1.3m 2013-07-29T09:06:29Z

In the aftermath of World War II, the regional theater movement arose to make the art form more responsive to local audiences and less fixated on profit. How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Well, that identity gradually got discarded as a result of events in 1941 and 1942 in World War II, then Britain's application to the European Union, and Australia's increasing trade with Asia. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Brown explained that she had retrieved ration books from World War II belonging to Hans Wittstock and other members of his family. She’s a thrift store detective of sorts — she buys mementos and returns them to their rightful owners, free of charge 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

My grandfather fought in World War II, and I think he thought the most loving thing I can do is toughen up my son by telling him he's not good enough. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Though its subtitle, “A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,” always called attention to those horrors, and temporary exhibitions were typically about suffering during World War II, the museum’s identity seemed generic — about culture, not loss. The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Whenever you think about World War II and World War I, you think about white people. Charles Fuller Never Expected Broadway. At 80, He’s Arrived. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

During World War II, Pullman’s father was a physician on a destroyer in the South Pacific. ‘Healing Wars,’ at Arena Stage, traces the nation’s steps in coping with combat’s toll

Army Air Forces during World War II. When Zamperini’s plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, he survives for 47 days on a raft, only to be taken prisoner by the Japanese Navy. Forget the winter chills with a movie 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Once inside the park, the memorial features sculptures depicting both Eisenhower’s legacy as World War II general and 34th president of the United States. Committee staff recommends Eisenhower Memorial plan continue

During World War II, he served about two years in the Navy as a surgical technician. Ed Moses, 90, prepares nonstop for a new survey at Bergamot Station 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

She was born in Cairo in 1933, and grew up there until almost the end of World War II, a childhood she recounts in her memoir, “Oleander, Jacaranda.” ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Too few men did too much of the fighting during World War II, the author writes. Books of The Times: ‘The Deserters,’ a World War II History by Charles Glass 2013-06-09T21:32:20Z

David Clemons’s original artwork was done with airbrush illustration, a style of art that was popular in the World War II era in which the play is set. Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

He employs his grandfather’s story as a lens through which to view the poetry of World War II. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z

“It just serves you well to think about Roosevelt trying to navigate through World War II.” Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

After World War II, the authors explain, America was such a religiously moderate nation that one couldn't predict someone's politics based on whether he or she attended church. 'American Grace' says evangelicalism peaked two decades ago 2011-01-07T00:42:25Z

After trying out Venice, Budapest, Dubrovnik and other places after World War II, she settled in Paris, in a small apartment near Montparnasse, and cleared her slate of all possible encumbrances. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

And World War II was about as big a storm as we saw in that last century. Bear Grylls Wants to Climb Every Mountain, but His Soundtrack Is Abba 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The room quickly fills with the Broadway equivalent of the bomber crew from an old World War II movie. It's Only a Play on Broadway: Inside Job 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Like so many such properties after World War II, Thenford was run down and suffering from years of deferred maintenance. Perspective | Why I want my politicians to spend some time in a garden 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Other works were drawn or painted from memory after World War II by former prisoners. Review: ‘Because I Was a Painter,’ a Documentary About Art Made in Nazi Camps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

This poster shows the silhouette of Charles de Gaulle, a World War II general and the French president at the time, covering the mouth of a young man. Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

He interrupted his studies at the University of Rochester to serve as a bombardier during World War II. He returned to graduate in 1944 with a degree in economics. Jack Keil, Creator of the Crime-Fighting Dog McGruff, Dies at 94 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The impulse has been to generalize, to say that a Holocaust museum can’t be “just” about the murder of Jews during World War II. Critic’s Notebook: Israel’s Holocaust Museums Evolve in Message and Methods 2012-09-04T22:03:21Z

She sent Fox News Digital the photos shown here of her beautiful relatives "who were murdered during World War II," she said. NYC woman whose relatives were killed in Holocaust gets striped pajamas pulled from shelves 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

“During World War II there was an Argentinean ambassador in Paris who entertained all the artists — Matisse, Braque, Cocteau, Leger,” Mr. Richardson recalled. Inside Art: London Picasso Show Is a Family Affair 2010-07-01T22:30:00Z

Considered by many as one of the most important books of photography published since World War II, “The Americans” was not initially well received. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Congress hasn’t authorized a memorial to the 34th president and World War II general in 15 years. Revisions unveiled for Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial design; Issa voices support

After serving in the Navy during World War II, he majored in English at the University of Detroit. Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:32:52Z

When World War II — itself now sometimes called an apocalypse – ushered in the nuclear age, it brought a radical transformation to the idea. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z

King, 48, also said she’d love to act in love story with the backdrop being World War II or another historic event. Outtakes: Regina King on white lies, directing and ‘227’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

She credits her survival during World War II to the Catholic farmers in the valley who protected her and her family from the Germans. Cultured Traveler: A ‘Little Jerusalem’ in the Heart of Italy 2012-11-22T18:40:22Z

During World War II, the club’s compass was pointed toward South America, thrilling Brazilians with “Away to Rio!” and inspiring the formation of a choir in La Plata, Argentina. It?s Yale Glee Club?s Year To Look Back, and Ahead 2011-04-07T21:17:25Z

The 2020 bee was canceled because of the pandemic, the first time since World War II that the bee wasn’t on the calendar. Vocabulary, lightning round added to National Spelling Bee 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

I don't know too many Hollywood stories that are about World War II before the U.S. has entered the war. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Everyone agrees about World War II. “There may be disagreement on the margins, but not on the cause,” she said. Margaret MacMillan Discusses Causes of World War I 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The program opens with Bartok’s final quartet, first performed in 1941 and a work that arrestingly combines aching grief — his mother died and World War II was grimly unfolding — with teeming intensity. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in June 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

His recent project, "Allegiance," a Broadway musical about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II — Takei and his family were internees — is, in part, inspired by his fans. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu! George Takei is a guest at Emerald City Comicon 2012-03-28T23:11:04Z

Shortly before the United States entered World War II, she took a job in Puerto Rico working in a warehouse for the Army Signal Corps, where she began taking pictures. Sonia Handelman Meyer, Socially Conscious Photographer, Dies at 102 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

She was born Nora Aschenbrenner, a child of World War II, in a family that was more aristocratic in behavior than in wealth. The book of Nora: The organic restaurant pioneer pens a memoir 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

With plenty of patience and luck, German scholars and archaeologists have managed to re-assemble over 30 monumental basalt sculptures that were once thought lost to World War II bombs. From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin 2011-02-05T14:35:00Z

Campanella notes that Brooklyn reached its “apogee of power and population during World War II,” thanks in part to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as the borough became “the largest war-staging base in the United States.” Review | The rise, fall and resurgence of Brooklyn 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The palace served as a museum upon the fall of the Habsburgs in 1918, although it was occupied by British forces after World War II. It reopened as a museum in 1955. For the Vienna Philharmonic, Summer Means Schönbrunn 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

A pair of World War II prisoners-of-war classics will be aired on Wednesday night. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Ailey’ and ‘Somebody Somewhere’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Why didn’t Salinger address World War II in his writing? 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Churchill gave the Koutoubia Mosque painting, believed to be the only one he made during World War II, to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a gift. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, after World War II, he decided to make his living writing comic scripts. Obituary: Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:18:49Z

The latest addition to the canon of books about America’s internment camps is “Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II,” written by Albert Marrin and published in October. Books on the Pearl Harbor attack and its aftermath for kids and teens 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

“His body of work includes acting, directing, producing and writing numerous films focused on World War II, including: ‘Saving Private Ryan'; ‘The Pacific; Band of Brothers'; and ‘The War.'” Tom Hanks Joins Panel Trying to Build Eisenhower Memorial 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Shostakovich wrote it as World War II came to an end, and originally planned something huge and triumphant, akin to Beethoven’s full-chorus Ninth. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Its time frame — roughly 30 years between World War II and the mid-1970s — is narrow compared with that of the Mississippi history museum, or the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

“I have so many historical images in my head that I keep thinking about: Sarajevo in the ’90s, Leningrad during World War II,” he said. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the 1920s and ’30s, Art Deco skyscrapers and Streamline Moderne movie theaters sprang up, while after World War II, the International Style and its modernist tenets held sway. The incredible modern architecture of Havana 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

Over the course of this absorbing story, Julian and Kendall’s relationship is threatened by a lynching in Jim Crow-era Florida, encouraged in bohemian Greenwich Village and reignited after World War II. ‘Wherever There Is Light’ review: A tale of lovers caught in history 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

I think what they were involved in was pretty epic: Every work of art somewhere on the road during World War II, then finding these things and getting them back. Texas man's mission: Honoring WWII Monuments Men 2013-05-09T20:02:14Z

She accessorizes these mysterious garments with diverse headgear: knitted skullcaps, top hats, World War II army caps. A high-style, intermittently substantive 'Caesar' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

“The Lions’ Den” illustrates the individual struggles of Jewish leftists in the World War II generation to reconcile their conflicting impulses, the particularist pull of Zionism and the universalist pull of socialism. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

In the closing days of World War II, the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf was pursuing English-language rights to Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague,” with its powerful and clear allegorical view of Nazism. Review: ‘Looking for “The Stranger,”’ the Making of an Existential Masterpiece 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“That’s one thing you always hear from all the wars of the past: People always say, ‘Grandpa was in World War II, but he never talked about it,’” Chinana said. An Art Show, by Veterans Armed With Cameras 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Berlin-Karlshorst Museum, on the site of the German army’s formal surrender at the end of World War II, commemorates what it describes as Germany’s “brutal war of extermination” against the Soviet Union. For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

Where the first two volumes took us behind battle lines in World War II and Vietnam, "Golden Age" vividly captures the unique terrors of fighting in Iraq. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

After graduating from Winchester College in 1942, he served in World War II in the Rifle Brigade and was sent first to Algiers and then to Anzio, in Italy. Raleigh Trevelyan, Chronicler of a Notable Family, Dies at 91 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

That trailer begins with a flashback to World War II. TV Tonight: Cuckoo Clocks 2013-02-14T12:09:18Z

Presson added that Frank — a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam — remains dedicated as ever to his wife. Illinois couple fighting coronavirus treated to 'dinner date' by hospital staff: 'Always inseparable' 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The show’s producers wanted to provide Steed with a gun, but Mr. Macnee — who commanded torpedo boats during World War II as a British naval officer — refused. Patrick Macnee, debonair actor in the TV series ‘The Avengers,’ dies at 93 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

His career was temporarily stalled by World War II – Douglas joined the Navy in 1941 after failing the Air Force's psychological test – but was given a medical discharge in '44. Kirk Douglas, "Spartacus" actor and Hollywood icon, dead at 103 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gutowski was the son of a cultured and assimilated Jewish family in eastern Poland but saw his youth shattered by World War II and the loss of his family in the Holocaust. Gene Gutowski, Holocaust survivor who produced Roman Polanski films, died at 90 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The piece begins with Ms. Rampling, barefoot in a plain, black dress, reciting “Lady Lazarus,” which draws on World War II imagery as a metaphoric expression of more general oppression. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Video panels offer stories told by older non-Muslim residents that delve into how their lives were affected during World War II. Istanbul's Islands Get a Museum of Their Own 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z

Used as a bomb shelter during World War II when the German army besieged the city, it sits beneath a seven-story apartment building. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Even now, though, seven decades after the war, more than half of the artworks taken from Jewish families in France and Belgium during World War II remain missing. Prominent French Families Battle Over a Missing Monet 2012-03-19T19:18:14Z

His father, Homes, was a railroad manager who moved the family often from one assignment to the next, to New Jersey and, during World War II, to Washington. Walter Darby Bannard, Artist of the Color Field Movement, Dies at 82 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The answer: "Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle." Computer crushes the competition on `Jeopardy!' 2011-02-16T13:59:07Z

He left Hollywood in 1922 because of rising anti-Asian sentiment, eventually returning after World War II. In 1957, he received an Oscar nomination for his role in “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” The complex history of Asian Americans in movies, from the silent era to ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

During World War II he helped develop proximity fuzes, devices that detonated bombs as they approached their targets. Zelda Fichandler, a Matriarch of Regional Theater, Dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Bourne was the most passionate in-house champion of the book, a darkly comic tale of World War II by a first-time novelist. Nina Bourne Dies at 93; Created Best Sellers 2010-04-14T04:55:00Z

A friend joked that if I went to Italy I could call it my World War II Axis Powers circumnavigation. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Shepherd composed it sometime around World War II, but kept it in a drawer for nearly four decades, until the final years of her life. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

After World War II, the War Department was renamed the Defense Department, which was a wimpy surrender to political correctness. We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

Now it’s Mr. Clooney’s turn as Frank Stokes, an art historian and the story’s hub, to lead a charmingly quirky crew in a World War II operation to rescue Europe’s artistic treasures from the Nazis. Movie Review: Clooney and Company Hunt for Treasures in ‘Monuments Men’ 2014-02-06T22:43:48Z

But margarine’s fortunes rose over time, assisted by scarce butter supplies during World War II and concerns over the saturated fat in butter, and it surpassed butter in popularity during the 1950s. Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

On March 28, Netflix will premiere “Five Came Back,” about a group of prominent Hollywood directors and how they were changed by World War II, in three episodes. Netflix Casts a Wider Net for Original Documentaries 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Balanchine Revealed In a Dance Inside a Play “Nikolai and the Others,” Richard Nelson’s new play at the Beaumont Theater, recreates one very particular milieu of Russophone exiles in America just after World War II. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z

He saw battle in World War II, and ran his family’s car company, which was once Italy’s largest private business. Fabulous Life Lessons From Gianni Agnelli 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

But as the chaos of World War II metastasizes around the globe, their lives are devoured by the same mystery that swallows his mother. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the World War II exhibits, the walls are covered with photos of WACs training and marching, repairing truck engines and serving food. ‘I’m in this war too!’: U.S. Army Women’s Museum gives credit where it’s due 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Shaw, one of the major writers to emerge after World War II, was born Feb. 27, 1913. E-books by major post-WWII author Irwin Shaw out 2013-02-26T17:46:04Z

In the 20th century, just before World War II, automatic washing machines promised elusive blocks of nothing-to-take-care-of. I Quit My On-Demand Laundry Service 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

After Army service in World War II, he attended the University of Southern California; he later studied privately for several years with the American modernist composer George Antheil. Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z

A long-lost trove of Impressionist and Modern art not seen since World War II will be offered at auction in London and Paris, Sotheby's said Friday. Modern art found in Paris bank vault to go on sale 2010-06-11T15:19:00Z

The History channel actually took a cue from World War II storytelling when it came to “Gettysburg.” Television: Old-Time Stuff Is Not Forgotten 2011-05-27T18:40:43Z

The biggest to fall victim was the World War II epic “The Eight Hundred” by director Guan Hu with a reported budget of $80 million. China film industry's 'bleak winter' deepens as coronavirus adds to censorship woes 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

France was the most looted country during World War II, with over one-third of all privately owned art stolen. Cultured Traveler: Hunting for Looted Art in Paris 2010-11-20T06:30:00Z

The second book will be a novel involving the stories of prisoners of war during World War II, the publisher said. ArtsBeat: New Novels on the Way From 'Schindler's List' Author 2013-01-29T17:46:52Z

In the film “Patton,” the legendary World War II leader is described as “the greatest American general since Stonewall Jackson.” Who in the hell was Stonewall Jackson?! 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

Those World War II scenes contribute to the novel’s contrapuntal treatment of ethnic violence. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

But his career was interrupted by World War II. He crossed the Pyrenees and was interned in Spain for three months. George Gaynes, a Versatile Character Actor, Dies at 98 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s based on the true story of an Austrian conscientious objector to Adolf Hitler’s army in World War II. In Cannes, Terrence Malick uncovers ‘A Hidden Life’ 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

What you’ve seen him in: The sci-fi romantic comedy “About Time,” eccentric indie “Frank” and the World War II drama “Unbroken.” 5 up-and-comers to watch in 2015 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

These letters are rich fodder, both as firsthand accounts of World War II, and a glimpse into the mind of a writer finding his voice. Review | What Kurt Vonnegut’s rapturous love letters reveal about him as a writer — and husband 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

During World War II, metal tokens were replaced by wooden ones. Hasbro aims to jazz up Monopoly with new token 2013-01-10T01:48:09Z

When I was growing up, World War II was very close. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the decades following World War II, new technologies helped to increase sharply the worldwide agricultural yield. Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We?ll All Be Dieting 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z

He unwinds by watching documentaries about World War II or visiting the roof of his Foggy Bottom apartment building at night. How a member of the cleaning staff became the most sought-after SoulCycle instructor 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Like his predecessors, and unlike the government of Germany after the Holocaust and World War II, Erdogan still refuses to acknowledge what the Turkish government did. The internet won’t let Armenia go away 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Moving the Call of Duty games from World War II to the modern day made the games more exciting for many players. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z

Army during World War II; studied art for two years in New York with the Cubist Amédée Ozenfant and struggled to find a job that would allow him time to paint. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fleischman’s studies were interrupted by World War II, in which he served with the Navy in the Pacific. Sid Fleischman, Children?s Author, Dies at 90 2010-03-24T23:24:00Z

But there is little recognition of the big role this southern port city played during World War II. The Battles of Wilmington, N.C. — in World War II, That Is 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

This despite the fact that among the 16 million U.S. soldiers who fought in World War II, there were about one million African-American soldiers. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Paul was a history teacher who once tried to tell students that many World War II victims deserved to die. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z

World War II is kept at a slight remove, but far from absent altogether, in this Polish film about the power of imagination to keep reality at bay, if only intermittently. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

After working for the Office of War Information in Europe during World War II, she took over the children’s department at Harcourt, Brace. Margaret K. McElderry, Children?s Book Publisher, Dies at 98 2011-02-16T02:23:03Z

Billed as "an everyday story of country folk," "The Archers" was intended in part to help educate farmers about modern agricultural methods in the years after World War II. On-air drama as radio soap 'The Archers' turns 60 2011-01-04T16:29:08Z

Unlike the Civil War and World War II, though, World War I did not have one side that was clearly right and another that was clearly wrong. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Among his clients was Violette Verdy, the New York City Ballet ballerina who was a child prodigy when he met her in a ballet class in Paris before World War II. Paul Szilard, Dance Impresario, Dies at 100 2013-08-05T02:25:52Z

When Wolf tells us Germany sent many boys into battle toward the end of World War II, the visual evidence is that he’s talking about kids around 12. ‘Teenage’: Meandering look at 20th-century youth can get old 2014-05-08T19:56:59Z

The film is set in late World War II Germany in 1945 and follows a crew of tank soldiers on a deadly mission. Brad on making an authentic war film 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Through much of World War II, Allen painted artwork at the request of his squadron's pilots on the various aircraft. In Pictures: Don Allen's "nose art" 2012-08-17T14:57:36Z

As Allen walks past his collection of perfectly preserved World War II planes, weapons and tanks, one of the best in the world, the 60-year-old reels off from memory stories of each relic’s chance discovery. Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:33Z

Many of its players — more than 600 — were leaving to join the U.S. armed forces to fight Germany and Japan in World War II. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Hermes, an aircraft carrier sunk during World War II, Mr. Heaton discussed the continuing allure of dive watches in an era when many scuba enthusiasts consider them obsolete. Does Anyone Actually Go Diving With a Dive Watch? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

For all his success in Hollywood, however, “Das Boot,” a tense drama about sailors on a German U-boat during World War II, is the work for which Mr. Petersen will mostly likely be remembered. Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

The tedium of “assisted living” contrasts the heroic remembrances of such residents as a former World War II bomber navigator. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The sentiment fits Fleming — World War II intelligence agent, thriller writer, devotee of the fine art of fast living — to a T. “Always say yes. Otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” Celebrating 50 years of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Still, no one took much interest in them until World War II, when the United States opened an Air Force base on Seymour North, also known as Baltra. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Pachinko” chronicles four generations of an ethnic Korean family, first in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 20th century, then in Japan itself from the years before World War II to the late 1980s. Home but Not Home: Four Generations of an Ethnic Korean Family in Japan 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The carpet bombing of German cities during World War II; the “naughty document” that handed over Romania and Bulgaria to Stalin; comparing the Labour Party to the Gestapo — the list of Churchillian controversies goes on. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

During World War II, government officials were worried that enemies might set fire to U.S. forests to destroy an important natural resource: wood. Smokey Bear, nearly 70, gets a millennial makeover 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Last week, Activision released a trailer of its latest "Call of Duty", set in World War II, as the company looks to rebound from disappointing sales of last year's installment, "Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare". Activision's 'Overwatch' fuels revenue beat; forecasts raised 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Christie’s says it is committed to ensuring that artworks looted during World War II are not offered for sale. Did Christie’s Do Its Homework? Buyer of Nazi-Tainted Work Says No 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

The actor-activist shares his gripping story of enduring World War II internment as a child, setting powerful personal details against the backdrop of large-scale American atrocity. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Clooney’s World War II film is based on the true story of a band of historians and art dealers who were sent behind enemy lines to retrieve stolen art from the Nazis. George Clooney’s Monuments Men Pushed to 2014 2013-10-23T02:53:56Z

During World War II, he served in the Army in India, where he helped put on informal shows with other soldiers. Jack Rollins, manager of Woody Allen, Billy Crystal and others, dies at 100 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Zamperini joined the Army Air Corps after the U.S. entered World War II. He was a bombardier flying a rescue mission when his B-24 crashed at sea. Louis Zamperini, 'Unbroken' hero: A remarkable life, well told 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The legal dispute centers on the so-called Schneerson Library, a collection of 12,000 books and 50,000 religious documents assembled over two centuries before World War II, and kept since in Russia. ArtsBeat: Legal Wrangle May Keep 38 Works From Russia Out of Los Angeles Show 2011-05-26T21:00:28Z

Our guide, Norman Baker, an energetic World War II veteran who has spent years retracing the trail and wrote a book about it, guided us down a modern highway. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

They were presumed destroyed or lost during World War II but were rediscovered in 2004 in the museum vaults, inspiring a German exhibition of mummies from which this one developed. Exhibition Review: Long Dead, Yet Somehow Vaguely Alive 2011-06-16T23:27:50Z

A British dramatist whose career flourished in the years after World War II, Rattigan built up a reputation for the kind of well-mannered craftsmanship that can seem old-fashioned today. ‘In Praise of Love’: A second look at the 1970s play’s retorts and tear-jerkers 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

A story of romance and heartbreak set during World War II. The 20 novels we can’t wait to read in 2016. And this list only gets us to June. 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

During World War II, the Academy replaced its gold-plated statuettes with plaster ones and outlawed formal wear, while concerns over the situation in Iraq were reflected by a toned-down ceremony in 2003. Academy Awards A to Z 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The artifacts also include Nazi propaganda from World War II. $5M in stolen artifacts returned to Polish museum 2012-06-20T22:03:08Z

In 1939, she was sent to England to pursue scientific studies, but World War II intervened. Judith Leiber, 97, dies; turned handbags into objets d’art 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Little-known within Lee's extensive body of work are his images of the bitter slice of history told in "Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps During World War II." What to see in L.A. galleries: World War II farm labor camp photography and more 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

Liberty Magazine traversed the American scene from the Jazz Age through and World War II before halting publication in 1950. Robert Whiteman?s Quest to Save Liberty Magazine 2010-04-16T22:50:00Z

During World War II, the facility produced trucks for the occupying Germans and was the target of allied bombings. Performance Center Rises from the Seine 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Turner served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a staff clerk, journalist and illustrator on the newspaper of the 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Morrie Turner Dies at 90; Broke Barriers in Comics 2014-01-29T01:15:34Z

Born on June 25, 1924, Lumet served as an Army radar technician in World War II, then worked as a stage actor in New York and before directing acclaimed live TV dramas during the 1950s. Prolific American film director Sidney Lumet dies 2011-04-10T00:09:53Z

Songs and Stories from World War II: Stories and USO show style music in period clothing, 1 p.m. Opening of Jetty Island and other weekend community events 2011-07-01T20:23:05Z

He displayed on the wall of his office a gift from his children, a poster playing on the famous motivational one in World War II Britain, reading, “Keep Calm and le Carré on.” John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

But the outbreak of World War II interrupted the production, and the movie was never completed. Louis Jourdan, Dashing Star of ‘Gigi,’ Is Dead at 93 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

He bought the old Hollywood Canteen, which had provided entertainment to servicemen during World War II, and converted it to a dinner theater. Zev Buffman, Prolific Theatrical Producer, Is Dead at 89 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

While men of fighting age are drafted to fight in World War II, women are called to serve by entering the workforce, whether by taking jobs in factories or on the ball field. "A League of Their Own" makes up for the past's missed swings, but isn't quite a home run 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

Berinksy described the periods before the Great Depression, before the New Deal and before World War II as similarly divisive. This is your brain on fake news: what’s behind the human willingness to swallow “alternative facts” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Born on Aug. 30, 1919 in Bayreuth, Wagner studied the trumpet and French horn before being sent to fight on the eastern front early in World War II. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

The male-dominated mythologizing that has animated American painting since the end of World War II moves front and center as a subject. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

The last time anything like this occurred was during World War II, when at least it was aimed outward. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z

In the 1930s, Mr. James got work with the Civilian Conservation Corps and served in the Army in World War II, receiving two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. Clifton James, Who Played a Sheriff in 2 Bond Films, Dies at 96 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

A dramatic look at the lives of ordinary German men and women during World War II. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

After World War II he moved to Paris to write music with the singer and lyricist Jean Broussolle. André Popp, French Composer of ‘Love Is Blue,’ Dies at 90 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Form and color meet in Matisse's joyous cutouts 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

His acting career was interrupted by World War II. Obituary: Clive Dunn 2012-11-07T16:22:33Z

Secrest works hard to account for Schiaparelli’s actions during World War II and to understand how she moved freely between Europe and the United States when travel was constrained for others. Fact-laden Schiaparelli biography gives little shape to the woman or her designs

After World War II, with the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood descended on the coast. In St. Tropez, the Rolling Stones made "Exile on Main St." — and turned rock stars into high society 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z

The TV series, about women working at a munitions plant during World War II, began in Canada in early 2012 and turned up in the United States on Reelz later that year. One More Round for a Wartime Soap 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

The man who saved Gabriel is Meriwether Hunter, a recently returned veteran of World War II who is a talented mechanic. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Until World War II many people here only spoke a local dialect.” Journeys: The Albergo Diffuso Puts Rooms All Over Town 2010-05-22T03:10:00Z

Anna is haunting a gray, transitory landscape that is itself haunted by the memories of World War II. As much as anything, “Anna” evokes the feelings of a Jew traveling alone in postwar Germany. In ‘Les Rendez-vous d’Anna,’ Many Meetings but No Connections 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Reeling in the aftermath of World War II, they felt compelled to begin again, from degree zero. Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stanczak was a firmly optimistic artist, despite injuries in a Soviet labor camp during World War II that rendered his dominant right arm useless. Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

He was too young to truly recognize and understand it, but in 1996, he recalled a story his mother told him about his father and his uncle before World War II officially started. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Where did you serve in World War II? Just Asking: Isaiah Anderson, 88-year-old cabdriver

In the first episode of the new season, debuting Wednesday, he’ll be in Normandy, where he follows historians studying D-Day and tours a newly discovered World War II bunker. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Lego Masters’ and ‘Expedition Unknown’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The association counts 16 major Holocaust museums in the United States, in Richmond, Houston, New York, Washington and other cities to which Jewish survivors immigrated after World War II. Museum Review: New Holocaust Museums Must Make Hard Choices 2011-03-23T12:37:55Z

When Winston Churchill vacationed at Lake Como after the end of World War II, he painted almost every day. Circumnavigating Italy’s storied Lake Como by paddle and pedal 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The foundation, based in Magdeburg, was born in 2015, after efforts in Germany, and elsewhere, to find the huge number of works lost during World War II were often criticized as lackluster. Jewish Heirs Take on an Art Foundation That Rights Nazi Wrongs 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

Rather then pursue an operatic career, she preferred popular music, a genre that brought her wide popularity in Poland - where the family returned in 1948 after the World War II - and abroad. Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies 2011-12-06T12:16:17Z

Many of those living in the area were sent by the U.S. government to Manzanar and other internment camps during World War II, but resettled afterwards, forming the basis for the community that exists today. The Best Secret Streets Around the World 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

After serving as an Army weatherman in Italy during World War II, he wrote advertising copy for a mail order publisher. Frederik Pohl, Worldly-Wise Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 93 2013-09-03T16:42:10Z

Before World War II, virtually no market existed for contemporary American art. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

A Man Up character's wife tells him, "Your grandfather fought in World War II, your father fought in Vietnam, but you play video games and use pomegranate body wash." High Manxiety 2011-05-26T07:10:00Z

“As World War II started encroaching on our shores,” Meltzer says, “that’s when Superman took off, selling over a million copies.” As Batman turns 75, the comic book icon isn’t just enduring, he is thriving

Mr. Stern enlisted in the Army during World War II and was assigned to a photography unit. Phil Stern, photographer of stars during Hollywood’s golden age, dies at 95 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Later, when the federal government constructed housing for workers at World War II defense plants, these new quarters also required segregation. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

"I think it's very important because the younger people nowadays, they don't really understand concentration camps back in World War II," Waite said. Grandfather's hidden photos inspire Holocaust film 2013-04-04T06:55:09Z

For spring, he is decidedly more grounded, his collection inspired by the modernist ceramics of the Swedish artist Wilhelm Kage, whose geometric stoneware appeared before and after World War II. On the Runway Blog: Rochas: Stonewear 2012-02-29T18:37:37Z

World War II was winding down, and the large airfield in Gander was the main refueling point for flights between North America and Europe that included Hollywood stars heading over to entertain the troops. Gordon Pinsent, Actor Known for Playing Twinkle-Eyed Rogues, Dies at 92 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

The first is the period before World War II, when cars first became part of American culture. Taking a Spin Through American Car Culture 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

During World War II, his father sent his mother a handbag and wrote, “It’s pretty popular in Paris, so it should be O.K. in the Bronx.” Books of The Times: Bob Mankoff’s ‘How About Never — Is Never Good for You?’ 2014-03-19T20:53:31Z

After serving in World War II he toured worldwide, performed with the Spanish Ballet and appeared in Tennessee Williams' Broadway play "Camino Real." Classical guitarist Rolando Valdes-Blain dies 2011-04-09T00:11:20Z

But this lean book may put some readers in mind of “Wartime,” Paul Fussell’s acidic attack on some of the comforting myths about World War II. Books of The Times: Bruce Cumings?s ?Korean War,? Corrective on Conflict 2010-07-21T21:41:00Z

From 1921, when the contest began in Atlantic City, through World War II, only one woman representing a former Confederate state won the competition. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z

And he realized what he thought were barracks were actually housing for some of the roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast incarcerated during World War II in America. New book and exhibition aim to give Seattle Japanese American artist Kenjiro Nomura the credit he deserves 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Born in South Carolina, Powell was just 4 when his father died of injuries sustained during World War II. The family moved to Rhode Island, and his mother eventually remarried. The quiet, productive tenure of Rusty Powell to come to an end 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

After all, more bombs had been dropped on North and South Vietnam by 1968 than were dropped in Europe during all of World War II. Mark Bowden's searing 'Hue 1968' look finds miscalculations in the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

They were born within a few years of each other, served in World War II, and achieved literary fame at a young age. William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer: An odd-couple relationship 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Like many of the German-speaking families in Czechoslovakia, the Dietrichsteins and the Liechtensteins, who had lived in the region for centuries, were expelled from the Czech lands after World War II. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z

Major Clement Hart, her son, hides his loneliness behind his handsome facade, as well as hideous burns suffered in World War II. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z

The five finalists range from World War II Poland to modern-day Israel and Quebec, from an Iranian divorce court to the bruising world of Belgian cattle-rearing. Iranian film in running for foreign language Oscar 2012-01-24T18:43:16Z

After serving as a radar repairman in India and Burma during World War II, Lumet returned to New York and formed an acting company. Sidney Lumet, director of classic films, has died 2011-04-09T16:26:00Z

In the early expansionist years of World War II, it was the most performed Beethoven work in Germany, until the tide of battle turned and Nazi presenters favored the more tragically hued Fifth Symphony. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Sure, there were a lot of great memories — the World War II shows, the "Road" movies with Bing Crosby — but it also was a little stale, and the jokes, well, they were ancient or worse. Bob Hope gets little thanks for all the memories 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

While artists active in the early 20th century concentrated on painterly achievement, those who took center stage after World War II focused on the modes of perception. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z

Appeals to continuity after World War II could condemn or vindicate. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Picasso work of a female in cubist style was donated to Greece in 1949 with a dedication “in homage to the Greek people” for their resistance against the German-led occupation in World War II. Greek construction worker arrested for Picasso work theft 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

In World War II he served in the Army Air Forces in China as an air traffic controller. G.D. Spradlin, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 90 2011-07-27T03:26:25Z

For two decades after World War II, Germany — East and West – practiced “moral myopia.” Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Beyond his literary accomplishments, he was a World War II aviator, a diplomat, a filmmaker and the husband of Jean Seberg. ‘Promise at Dawn’ Review: An Extraordinary Life, Thanks to Mom 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

She selects the oldest audience members by asking questions such as “Who was born during World War II?” and “Who remembers the Cuban missile crisis?” Review: In ‘Unexploded Ordnances,’ It’s an Hour to Doomsday. Help! 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

The Sarkees’ unflappable character is part of island lore and plays a prominent role in a World War II exhibit at the visitors and heritage center. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Though Broadbent’s parents were conscientious objectors to World War II, the actor said he personally prefers to “keep a low profile.” In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force and also did intelligence work, but he dismissed reports over the years that he was a spy. Christopher Lee, famous for villainous roles, dies at 93 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Most date from the 1940s and are of her mother and grandmother, who left Soviet-occupied Poland after World War II and gradually made their way across Europe to the United States. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Rations to soldiers during World War II and the invention of the postwar “coffee break” helped feed America’s growing habit. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Lee never considered herself a pacifist — her father was a retired lieutenant colonel who fought in World War II and Korea. Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against Afghan war: ‘I almost wish ... I had been wrong’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

During World War II, when she was in her teens, the family was confined, with other Japanese-Americans, to internment camps, where she met artists who gave her drawing lessons. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

It will recall a Europe gone bad, when German bombs fell on the station in World War II and — folks forget this — during World War I in the Zeppelin raids on London. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The law also disbanded the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, splitting it into three sites, including one in Alaska that was part of a wildlife refuge managed by the U.S. How Congress nearly ruined a man’s quest to visit all national park sites in one trip 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Just after World War II, when entire accordion orchestras accompanied the festivities of Italian immigrants to the United States, Castelfidardo churned out its prize product by the tens of thousands. Italian Town Corners the Market for High-End Accordions 2011-07-01T20:30:06Z

There is World War II Claire, bloody in her military nurse’s apron. ‘Outlander’ Takes Manhattan 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The play's creative team returned to the time period that author Capote originally set his story, meaning during World War II, not the more glamorous 1960s of the movie. Sci-fi star Emilia Clarke on being Holly Golightly 2013-03-19T13:31:09Z

After World War II, cultural objects that had been looted from Jews were nationalized by the Communist regime and distributed to state museums and other institutions. Croatia Takes a Step Toward Returning Art Looted During the Holocaust 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

In the wake of World War II, many European artists felt an urgent need to start from scratch, but few summed up the ambition as succinctly as three young German artists who called themselves Zero. ‘Zero,’ a Look at a Movement, at the Guggenheim 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Army Air Forces during World War II as a radar operator aboard bombers in the Pacific — “which made a lifelong pacifist out of me,” Mr. Keepnews later said. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The selling point the New Year’s Concert enjoys today as a global event applied neither during World War II nor in the years that followed; it remained limited to Germany and, after the war, Austria. The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

One was a suspenseful historical thriller about the Amber Room, an ornate room with amber walls in the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, that was looted by the Nazis during World War II. Best-selling novelist is devoted to history 2011-08-03T00:26:04Z

From where Stone sits, World War II begot the cold war, which landed us in Vietnam, a manifestation of American imperialism, which led inexorably to our current battle in Afghanistan. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z

When World War II began, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to a photographic unit as a darkroom technician in London. Phil Stern, Hollywood and War Photographer, Dies at 95 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

After World War II he and a friend started a station in Fresno, KYNO; he eventually acquired full ownership. Gene Chenault, Who Changed Rock Radio, Dies at 90 2010-03-04T07:14:00Z

The intimacy of its day-by-day investigation of what led up to World War II gave me an entirely new perspective on how the war came about. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

In developing this theme, especially as it applies to World War II and the Holocaust, Sebald’s work was comfortable with contradictions. Books of The Times: ‘A Place in the Country,’ Essays by W. G. Sebald 2014-02-09T22:17:26Z

The second, “Winter of the World,” covers World War II, and is necessarily more shocking. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Fracci was born in Milan on Aug. 20, 1936, and spent World War II with relatives in the countryside to escape the frequent bombardment of the industrialized Lombardy capital. Italy’s Carla Fracci, La Scala prima ballerina, dies at 84 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

There was really a real gap between the so-called World War II generation and this so-called hippie generation, this younger bunch of people en masse questioning the values of the country. Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

None of that remains in Morandi’s later works, such as a still life with candlesticks in this show, done on the eve of World War II. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z

After World War II, he got a job as a radio announcer and, with a buddy, did a nightclub act that took them to California. At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman. And he’s desperate to get back onstage. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The family's fame and influence grew with the company, helped by the construction of a wealthy Stockholm suburb and one scion who became a hero for saving Jews in Hungary in World War II. Sweden's Wallenberg dynasty prepares for sixth generation 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

In Ian Fleming’s spy thrillers, which spawned the film franchise, Bond is a World War II naval veteran working for Britain’s secret service with a “license to kill.” Commander Craig: 007 star made honorary Royal Navy officer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The play welcomes and models that complexity: Written during World War II, it reflects calamity in both story and style. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

In an interview David Redden, the vice chairman of Sotheby’s, called the collection, which emphasizes 16th- and 17th-century English literature, “the greatest private collection put together since World War II.” Sotheby's Sale Includes Rare Early English Books (and Early English Dogs) 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Major Wooten, who served in France during World War II, received the French Legion of Honor at a combination medal ceremony and birthday party in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 3. WWII veteran celebrates 105th birthday with French Legion of Honor 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The new president went on to discuss the role of U.S. aircraft carriers in World War II — yes, World War II! — a key turning point in the naval war against Japan. Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

The George Washington Carver Homes, a large public housing project across the street from Brown Chapel constructed after World War II to house poor blacks, fell into disrepair. Rep. Terri Sewell, a daughter of Selma, rues her city’s lost promise 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Billy Boyle has been to some awesome places in James R. Benn’s adventurous World War II series. Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Most important, though, the airmen, World War II pilots who won nearly 100 Distinguished Flying Crosses, fit perfectly in Lucas’s mythic-heroic view finder. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z

A look at how Winston Churchill led Britain through World War II that explores both his political gamesmanship and his family dynamics. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Dr. LaHaye served in the Army Air Forces at the close of World War II and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1950 from Bob Jones University, a Christian liberal arts school in Greenville, S.C. Tim LaHaye, evangelical author of ‘Left Behind’ book series, dies at 90 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

She grew up in Tewkesbury, England, and met my grandfather during World War II. He was a soldier in the U.S. A telegram from the 1940s previewed the beginning of a new life 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The painting depicts a World War II sergeant in bold, confrontational colors. Huntington acquires paintings by Robert S. Duncanson, Charles White 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

During the final days of World War II, the Huntress — a Nazi — commits horrific acts before fleeing to America. The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Also a skilled musician, who played the violin, bass and piano, Zamparelli performed in an Army band during World War II. Zamparelli, Howard Hughes’ Chief Designer, Dies 2012-09-10T13:41:51Z

Then he spoke of Casals who, after World War II, suspended his concert career to protest the decision of the Allies not to try to topple Franco in Spain. Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Flanagan won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2014 for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” an extraordinary novel about Australian POWs during World War II that is unsparing in its considerations of human cruelty. Review | In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

The beginning of a distinctive American art severed from Europe is usually dated to or around World War II, roughly with the rise of Abstraction. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

SAT Celebration of Heroes banquet and reception honoring American fighter pilot aces of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-09-12T04:01:08Z

The greatest honor, she says, was vaccinating a 103-year-old man who served in the South Pacific in World War II. The joy of vax: The people giving the shots are seeing hope, and it’s contagious 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

But he is also inserting himself into a tradition of bridge-building musical events that reach back to the aftermath of World War II. Here are five memorable moments of musical diplomacy. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

After World War II, the Japanese sent cherry trees to Utah as a token of friendship. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Mashed potato pancakes 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Among the several World War II exhibits is a re-creation of barracks at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where many women were trained. ‘I’m in this war too!’: U.S. Army Women’s Museum gives credit where it’s due 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

“Counterpoint: Elementary school is not supposed to be like World War II.” Stephen Colbert Calls Nashville Shooting ‘Horrible and Familiar’ 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

From the early years of the 20th century until the aftermath after World War II, he created artworks that blended traditional Japanese ukiyo-e techniques with styles developed by Western artists like Picasso and Matisse. What's on This Week Around the World 1460-11-11T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Mizuki also took on serious subjects in graphic form, including the barbarities of war, drawn in part from his own harrowing combat experiences in World War II, and the rise of Adolf Hitler. Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

While makeup production decreased during World War II, cosmetics saw a major rebound in the 1950s. The history of makeup: Where did the Cupid’s bow and cat eyeliner come from? 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The other nominees for best drama were “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic, and the romance “Call Me by Your Name.” ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

At the other end of the scale, the Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 – composed in 1944, during World War II – uses the mighty power of the full orchestra to re-create the propulsive energy of its milieu. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Look up and you see an open-cockpit plane used to train the black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen. African Americans have shaped history, and history has shaped them 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

In a flashback scene, we learn why: Creel is a World War II veteran still tormented by his mistaken decision to call in a missile strike on a civilian neighborhood. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

She then joined the French Resistance, using her artistic performances as a cover for spying activities during World War II. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

In the series on view at the Getty, they turn their attention to the brutal concrete bunkers deposited by Adolf Hitler along the French coast during World War II. Through July 2. Datebook: A look back at internment, women of Ab-Ex and an L.A. artist's ribald installations 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The family moved to Britain when he was a toddler and settled in London, where he and his sister Joyce performed for people sheltering in subway stations during World War II bombing raids. British stage and TV veteran Lionel Blair dies at 92 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the mass murder of the Jews seemed to many artists and intellectuals to exist beyond the reach of representation. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the last days of World War II, Eichmann would personally oversee the deportation of 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. A Mossad Show Heavy on Spycraft Recounts Eichmann’s Capture 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

After World War II, the rise of “childhood” began, and you started to see an entire subculture spring up around kids, including theater just for children. Perspective | Can I give my older child a special day without my younger child? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

She’s starring in the Public Theater’s revival of David Hare’s drama about a former secret agent for Britain during World War II as she struggles to adjust to postwar life. Where to See Celebrities Onstage This Fall 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

This three-time Oscar winner revisits a World War II rescue mission in 1940, when hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers were evacuated from the French port city of Dunkirk as Nazi forces invaded. What’s on TV Saturday: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Mum’ 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Dozens of World War II veterans who had taken part in the five beach landings were there, too. Keeping the Story of D-Day Alive 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Artificial intelligence and robotics are also being used to piece together the ceiling frescoes of the House of the Painters at Work, which was destroyed in a World War II bombing. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

“And many works of art — I use the expression ‘the final prisoners of World War II’ — will finally find their rightful owners.” Senate Bill Would Help Recover Art Stolen by Nazis 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The film tells the story of the drug's development in Germany in World War II and the Sunday Times' campaign for victims under editor Sir Harold Evans. Award for thalidomide documentary 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Several centuries had passed, but the violence that would tear this region apart in World War II and decimate its population seemed prefigured here. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z

The gallery has been dealing in Nihonga artwork since just after World War II. A Japanese Gallery Puts a Natural Art Style Front and Center at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

During World War II, some U.S. politicians feared enemy spies would infiltrate the country if Jewish refugees were allowed in. Syrian refugee debate draws comparisons to Holocaust 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

With the outbreak of World War II, the family fled France, living in Rio de Janeiro before making their way, penniless, to New York in 1941. Rachel Rosenthal, Bold Performance Artist, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Tonight's episode features weapons from World War II, a statue of illusionist Harry Houdini and a hatchet that might solve an infamous murder. TV Picks: Carol Burnett on 'Glee'; 'DWTS' picks a winner 2010-11-22T23:28:00Z

Greg explains to Joan he is needed in Vietnam, and that in World War II, no one would have questioned the desire to go back and finish the job. Mad Men Watch: A Dark Turn to the Uncertain Future 2012-04-09T10:57:51Z

It was the return of injured veterans from World War II that began to shake that assumption. Television Review: ?Lives Worth Living? on ?Independent Lens? - Review 2011-10-26T23:46:17Z

It was a New York railway station in the World War II epic “Pearl Harbor” and the modern Justin Timberlake rom-com “Friends with Benefits”; the exterior of a 1950s movie studio in “Hail, Caesar!” LA’s Union Station books another starring role: The Oscars 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

If you look at the evolution of Porsche after World War II, everything else was these monster cars. Q+A: Patrick Dempsey on His Passion for Vintage Cars 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Former Jewish Ghetto During World War II about 20,000 Jewish refugees settled in Shanghai, which as an open port required no visa, despite the Japanese occupation. In Shanghai, Preserving Buildings Takes Work 2010-05-01T10:03:00Z

The eclectic Dyer turns his obsessive attention to the 1960s World War II film “Where Eagles Dare.” New & Noteworthy 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In the early days of the pandemic, Cooper saw a sign in her Houston neighborhood — the English World War II motto, Keep Calm and Carry On. Escape Rooms in an At-Home Era? Here’s the Key 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Its World War II backdrop aligns it with the more serious “Foyle’s War,” while its focus on forensics as an as yet unappreciated science links it to the Victorian-era “Ripper Street.” Television Review: ‘Murder on the Home Front,’ a TV Mystery Set in Wartime 2014-02-14T21:15:37Z

In Mark Hogancamp’s other life, he is a World War II fighter pilot and the owner of a clubby bar in Belgium, where all manner of international adventurers and baddies congregate. Mark Hogancamp, the Artist as (Imagined) War Hero 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

According to Morgan’s Law, Rick Atkinson has been doing first-rate journalism, enjoying critical and commercial success for three masterly books on World War II, all thoroughly researched and splendidly written. Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z

Although almost 175,000 Americans died in the conflict, little comprehensive information is available about many of these, unlike the people lost in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and more recent wars. Exhibit captures the poster art of World War I 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

A German counterpart to Ellis Island, the museum tells the story of emigration through Hamburg from the mid-19th century through World War II. Discovering ‘undiscovered’ Hamburg 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

According to Jackson, he and Fry are currently working on a new version of classic World War II film The Dam Busters. Stephen Fry lands Lordly role in Hobbit movie 2011-05-19T11:14:07Z

Though the show begins just after World War II, it largely takes place during 18th century Scotland’s Jacobite uprisings. Outlander Recap: Feminism and Time Travel in a Bodice-Ripping Romance? Sure! 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Originally built for Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, in the 1930s, it was sold to the United States government for $1 shortly after World War II. In London, Embassy Residence Is Showcase for American Art 2011-02-28T21:27:00Z

The narrative is sweeping, ferrying us through the second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War. Shigeru Mizuki's 'Showa' draws a graphic portrait of Japan 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

As Bond notes, World War II sped up the struggle, then Brown v. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Somewhere way down the pay scale was imported prestige director David Ayer, who made the World War II film “Fury” with Brad Pitt and the excellent L.A. cop drama “End of Watch.” “Suicide Squad”: One mediocre anti-superhero movie reveals Hollywood’s multiple disorders 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

And all this alone would make it well with your time, especially if you’re fond of World War II history. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

When the family moved to New York, she began entertaining at private parties and fund-raisers for wounded World War II soldiers recovering in Manhattan hospitals. Susan Reed, a Fleeting Star in a Folk Music Revival, Is Dead at 84 2010-05-02T00:44:00Z

The first movement vividly documents the scene, starting with noble, tranquil music suggesting Leningrad before World War II. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z

Set on the eve of World War II, “After the Dance” counts the casualties among an upper stratum of society that could never acknowledge when the party was over. London Theater Journal: Bright Young Things in a Dimming Light 2010-07-23T14:30:00Z

The publishing world’s insatiable appetite for historical fiction set during World War II shows no sign of abating. Review | Two historical mystery novels plunge readers into the past while keeping them guessing 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

At 18, he was drafted into the German Navy in the last year of World War II. He deserted in April 1945 and was briefly held as a prisoner of war. Siegfried Lenz, Novelist of Germany’s Past, Dies at 88 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But he went on to join the resistance in Lille, France, during World War II and, later, owned the largest Peugeot car dealership in the city. A Memoir of a Childhood Crushed by a Despotic Father 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

The British agency collapsed in September leaving 2,500 jobs lost and triggering the rescue of 150,000 travelers from the United Kingdom – the largest repatriation of British citizens since World War II. Thomas Cook brand bought by Chinese company Fosun Tourism 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Can Weinstein pull off another win this year for "The Imitation Game," a British period drama possessing many elements — British accents, World War II, a social consciousness — that academy members find hard to resist? Oscars 2015: Best picture, director and script front-runners 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Legal notices of key moments in state history — the passing of Prohibition, the edict removing Japanese Americans from the area during World War II — are accompanied by personal documents reflecting the realities that followed. 'New Land' a different approach to state history 2011-11-10T20:44:52Z

He is the creator of Marwencol, a small universe that sits next to his trailer, filled with World War II narratives in one-sixth scale miniature and populated by Barbies and other dolls. Mark Hogancamp, the Artist as (Imagined) War Hero 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

That World War I publicity campaign worked so well that the government used the image again to recruit soldiers and other members of the armed forces during World War II. How did Uncle Sam become a symbol for the United States? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The biopic will focus on the writer's life, from serving in World War II to the publication of Catcher in 1951. Weinsteins to make JD Salinger film 2013-09-19T10:09:13Z

Even as the world is changed by the Depression and World War II, “The Chaperone” stays genteel. Books of The Times: ‘The Chaperone’ by Laura Moriarty 2012-06-14T21:43:56Z

I also have several shelves of books about Japanese Americans and World War II, with no organizing principle at all. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The festivities handled nearly the full scope of Puente’s career, which spanned well over 100 albums and stretched from the end of World War II to his death in 2000. Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Rather than magnifying or intensifying this powerful World War II symphony, it enfeebles it. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

This Warsaw Uprising was the largest single military effort by any European resistance movement during World War II. But it was tragically undermined by military and governmental blunders in addition to global politics. Review: 'Warsaw Uprising,' when Poland fought back 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Right now we have two guys in World War II. Director John McTiernan prepares to appeal sentence 2010-10-07T00:50:00Z

During the final year of World War II, he and Jonas were leaving Lithuania to join an uncle in Austria when they were captured by the Germans and sent to a labor camp. Adolfas Mekas, Avant-Garde Filmmaker and Teacher, Is Dead at 85 2011-06-03T02:56:22Z

It was born from his experiences as a young Army private taken prisoner in World War II, witness to both the brutality of the German war machine and the catastrophic Allied firebombing of Dresden. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The book also looked back on the suffering by workaday Germans during World War II, including the Soviet sinking of a ship packed with thousands of German refugees in 1945. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The sneak attack killed more than 2,400 Americans and forced the reluctant nation into the caldron of World War II. The U.S. military expected a Japanese attack in 1941 - but not in Hawaii, explains 'Countdown to Pearl Harbor' 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

"Strange to think that I've become the World War II guy," Hanks laughs. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

A 102-year-old World War II veteran recently got in touch with her inner daredevil and went skydiving in Maryland. World War II veteran celebrated 102nd birthday by skydiving 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

But it’s difficult to discern much new here and he neglects to explain just why Korea was divided at the 38th parallel after World War II, or how MacArthur’s miscalculations led to needless American deaths. MacArthur and Truman face off in H.W. Brands' new history 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

But during World War II, it would be days before it went out. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Glenn Miller and Fats Waller, among others, encouraged Mr. Shearing to try his luck in the United States after World War II ended. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Pacifism lies strong in Japan, a nation devastated by World War II, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ukrainian opera singer in Japan prays for peace in melody 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

He went to work for a film lab at 15, and during World War II helped develop spy photography systems for the Royal Air Force. Cornel Lucas, Photographer Whose Portraits Defined Film Stars, Dies at 92 2012-11-19T01:24:05Z

After World War II, her father joined the Foreign Service and was posted to Hong Kong. Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

During World War II, he was briefly sent to live with his aunts in the countryside. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

I don't want to just recite the whole "Greatest Generation" trope about World War II but I live in a very rural area, and it's mostly Republicans. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

For more than two years she waited for her new husband to return from the South Pacific during World War II. Finally, a Wedding. It Was About Time. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Its story was suggested by the lives of Ms. Harris’s parents, Walter and Eugenia, who married during World War II. A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z

Lampedusa’s ancestral palazzo was destroyed in World War II; his family was harrowed by murder and suicide; his mother was a mix of raging disapproval and smothering love. How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The five-film program, spanning the 1980s and early ’90s, begins with “Nocturne,” which takes its rhythms from electrical storms and World War II bombings in order to, in Solomon’s words, construct the war at home. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Her family moved a great deal when she was a child, especially after the onset of World War II. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z

“Officials pulled the plug yesterday right when we were about to get helium,” grumbled Joe Kennedy, the blimp baby’s guardian, across the street from the World War II Memorial on Thursday morning. Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s Fourth of July 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

He served in the Army in Europe during World War II, an experience that was the source of his novel “The Beardless Warriors.” Richard Matheson, Writer of Haunted Science Fiction and Horror, Dies at 87 2013-06-26T03:29:59Z

He served as a radio gunner in World War II, was shot down over Germany and became a prisoner of war. 2010-01-09T06:06:00Z

The story, both film and series, takes place during World War II. As men are sent off to war, America misses baseball and the strapping young men who would run the bases. There are all kinds of nurturers on “A League of Their Own.” Lupe is the best 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Has any country ever suffered victory as Russia did at the end of the World War II in 1945? An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

During World War II, warplanes, tanks, soldiers, machine guns, bombs and swastikas were added to the pattern options, even on toddlers’ outfits. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Columbia would be different: It was modeled after New Towns — self-contained, comprehensively planned mini-cities that spread across Europe after World War II and were championed by intellectuals as an alternative to sprawl. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

That same year he was in the ensemble of “Winged Victory,” Moss Hart’s Broadway tribute to the United States Army Air Forces, the military’s aviation branch during World War II in which Mr. Forsythe served. John Forsythe, ?Dynasty? Actor, Is Dead at 92 2010-04-02T20:24:00Z

A look at how Winston Churchill led Britain through World War II that explores his political gamesmanship and his family dynamics. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Oppenheimer” is Nolan’s prestige movie based on “American Prometheus,” a biography of Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project, which during World War II produced the first atomic bombs. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Egan’s engaging novel tells overlapping stories, but is most fundamentally about a young woman who works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The material was amassed by the Chabad movement in the two centuries before World War II, and kept since then in Russia. Russia Fined $44 Million for Refusing to Hand Over Jewish Books 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Combat and the intense male bonds that develop under fire were the backbone of World War II series like “Combat!” and “12 O’Clock High” and eventually “Band of Brothers.” ‘Masters of Sex’ Starts Second Season on Showtime 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

His maternal grandmother was a refugee of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, but his own mother turned away from religion. "Scream" star Arquette has bar mitzvah in Israel 2012-06-11T16:41:12Z

Before Newhart became one of the hottest comedians on the scene, he was offered a role in the 1962 World War II film "Hell Is for Heroes." For Bob Newhart, it's always hip to be square 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Russian dramas, often set during World War II, are a mainstay of Ukrainian television. Ukrainians Turn to the Arts in a Time of Upheaval 2014-04-29T21:46:47Z

An assortment of military heroes from World War II pose in uniform. Critic?s Notebook: ?In Vibrant Color? - Harry Warnecke - National Portrait Gallery 2012-03-13T17:09:46Z

The German-speaking area known as the Sudetenland was annexed by the Nazis before World War II. At the end of the war, 3 million ethnic Germans were dispossessed and expelled, including the Bluemel family. ‘King of grasses’ Kurt Bluemel, 81, who re-created a savannah for Disney, dies

He directed "Basic Instinct" starring Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas as well as 2006's "Black Book" about a World War II Dutch resistance fighter. Director Verhoeven to head Berlin Film Festival jury 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Unemployment became an issue after World War II, so more people entered the business, causing hygiene, proper disposal of food waste and street congestion to become a problem. Getting a taste of Singapore’s famously flavorful street food 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

After World War I and World War II — whose spoils were decided at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 — the city’s landmarks, decrepit and shrapnel-scarred, ended up on the dark side of the Iron Curtain. Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z

The dramatic fountains at the World War II Memorial are costly and complex, but without them, the pompous classical plaza is hopelessly barren. One of D.C.’s great fountains comes back to life, but it shouldn’t have taken so long 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In early November, the museum teamed up with the Commemorative Air Force, an organization that tours the country with a fleet of World War II aircraft. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

But World War II and the lure of better paying jobs off the mountain put an end to the community. Gateway to Fall 2012-10-18T14:20:09.483Z

During World War II, several museum officials joined the effort to save, catalog and restitute art looted by the Nazis. How the Met Was Made 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the film’s most intriguing information has to do with Salinger’s experiences in World War II, where he endured almost 300 days in combat and took part in the liberation of Dachau. Movie Review: ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary by Shane Salerno 2013-09-05T19:25:01Z

There are powerful examples of synecdoche throughout this show: for instance, Celmins’s 1965 “World War II Puzzle Toy,” a handheld game with a war scene rendered on a circular surface under a transparent dome. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Refurbished World War II air raid sirens at three outdoor sites are key to the action. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

During World War II, the Vichy regime confiscated the mansion and used it as an officers club for the German air force. At U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Art of Welcome 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Because Rouen was heavily damaged in World War II and then rebuilt, the town offers an odd yet compelling juxtaposition of sacred history and modern architecture. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z

The novel, which spans events from the 1905 Russian Revolution to World War II, had been refused publication by the Kremlin but was published in Milan in 1957 at Feltrinelli's instigation. Gruff Rhys album in 'secret' launch 2013-05-02T07:04:03Z

But it’s like Vietnam or World War II for them — it’s something that will never go away. Denis Leary on the Return of 'Rescue Me' 2010-06-29T17:51:00Z

Demand for the product fell dramatically after World War II as coal was replaced by natural gas, which didn’t leave a mess on walls. Inventions can happen by accident. Play-Doh, penicillin and canned whipped cream are examples. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The labor shortage created by World War II further cemented custom harvesting’s place in Great Plains agriculture. Racing against the harvest, custom wheat cutters struggle to stay relevant 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

“Our business was in economic ruin after World War II,” she said. Artists Scrutinize a Collector’s Nazi Family Past 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

It survived a terrible siege by the Germans during World War II and a form of architectural reeducation under the Soviets, but the public squares, streets, and canals retain their original DNA. St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Like Prince Charles, who was also born just after World War II, and with whom he has half-ironically identified, he is a permanent son. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

The more pertinent lesson would seem to be that nothing fundamentally changed until World War II shifted American alliances and sympathies from Japan to China. Review: A New Film Investigates the Time America Banned an Entire Race 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. King’s father ran a bar and grill, but worked at a defense plant after World War II began. Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

When I was a kid, it was World War II, so I lived through all of that. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Feingold originally purchased his violin with a carton of cigarettes shortly after the end of World War II — and the deaths of his mother and younger brother in the Treblinka concentration camp. The incredible journey of “Joe’s Violin” 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

This is a poweful memoir of World War II, told simply. Snowed In? Here's What to Watch; Read; or Listen To. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

His call in 1946-47 for "containment" of the Soviet Union was a victory for anti-Communists who doubted that the U.S. could remain on good terms with its World War II ally. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

The “Scarlet Sails,” a city wide high-school graduation party dating back to the end of World War II, takes place at the end of June, and draws revelers of all ages. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z

As Johns' title indicates, their story isn't just a chapter in local art history but touches on the internment-camp experience during World War II when all ethnic Japanese were forcibly removed from the West Coast. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z

Freethinking child psychiatrists preached tolerance, defining these acts as the Nineties’ version of the World War II graffitist’s “Kilroy Was Here,” affirming the autonomous self in a volatile age. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

"For the first time in the post World War II era, population growth in the historic center of the region surpassed that of the suburbs," the report said. New Yorkers fled to suburbs but offspring seek city life: report 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

He listened intently as a pastor described the efforts to protect the great composer’s remains during World War II; he marveled at the dedication to preserving Bach’s legacy. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Brooks decided to have it painted like the original Liberty Belle — a B-17 that flew 64 missions in World War II — as a tribute to his father, who was a member of its crew. Take a flight, or tour, with an old World War II hero 2011-04-26T04:41:19Z

The Liberty Belle was built toward the end of World War II and never saw combat. Take a flight, or tour, with an old World War II hero 2011-04-26T04:41:19Z

Narratives surrounding a downed American fighter pilot rescued by Marwencol’s all-female population began unfurling against a backdrop that was nominally a World War II setting, in Belgium. At Home With Mark Hogancamp: In a Tiny Universe, Room to Heal 2011-04-06T23:25:26Z

The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s World War II film Dunkirk leaked online Thursday, a day ahead of its official announcement. Watch the Trailer for Christopher Nolan's WWII Epic 'Dunkirk' 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

She recently bought an antique Spitfire, a World War II aircraft for which she harbors an almost fetishistic adoration. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z

AndBeyond offers a visually rich, eight-hour tour in and around Cape Town, South Africa, in a vintage World War II motorcycle with a sidecar. Five Motorcycle Sidecar Tours With Views You’ll Never Get on a Bus 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z