I didn't really get Memorial Day until this trip to an English WWII airfield.
Anne-Marie O'Connor | Posted 05.31.2012
As Austrian tourist officials invite the world to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of this early modernist, some of his most spectacular portraits and landscapes are missing from the walls of Austrian museums.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2012
"Let There Be Light," a 1946 short film by director and veteran John Huston, could hold valuable information to help today's veterans deal with post-t...
Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.29.2012
After escaping Soviet imprisonment and being savagely tortured by the Gestapo, Karski risked his life to sneak past German guards into the ghetto to see how the Nazis were abusing Jews. Karski then disguised himself as a Ukrainian guard to visit a transfer station that sorted Jews on their way to the death camps.
Dan Rather | Posted 05.29.2012
I recently returned to Pearl Harbor for a documentary film about that day of infamy and its many ripples through the subsequent 70 years of history. It was deeply personal work because I worry that the lessons of that day are in danger of being forgotten.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.28.2012
The Associated Press (AP) -- Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed fl...
Christopher Holshek | Posted 05.25.2012
We should respect each other's commitment to community and country. There is no reason why we cannot stand up for all the fallen, so that Memorial Day will honor all those who gave their lives in the service of their neighbors as well as their nation.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2012
As we once again observe Memorial Day we remember and honor the more than one million American men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all our wars, including more than 6,800 from our two most recent wars -- and counting.
Monica Edinger | Posted 05.22.2012
Set in the landscape of World War II Britain and featuring women pilots and spies, the intricate plot of Code Name Verity involves espionage, Nazis, the Resistance, and occupied France.
Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.16.2012
They'd stood there, in those distinctive dust covers, gathering dust, for so many years. By rights they should have comprised a complete set of first editions, each one inscribed and signed by Ian Fleming to my father. And now they are all gone!
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 05.31.2012
A World War II airplane belonging to Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has been found in the Sahara Desert nearly 70 years after it crash landed, Metro ...
Aby Sam Thomas | Posted 05.09.2012
"We are leaving for the concentration camp, maybe the one in Carpi, Modena. Once I get there, if it is possible, I will write to you. We are all fine, and full of courage."
HuffingtonPost.com | David Kiley | Posted 05.07.2012
Sixty-seven years ago today, the German army surrendered to the Allied Forces in a little schoolhouse in Rheims, France. The news that the war was ove...
AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.06.2012
NEW YORK (AP) — In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest sc...
Dan Persons | Posted 05.02.2012
In the latest episode of my weekly radio show, I take a look at Citizen Gangster, director Nathan Morlando's directorial debut (he also scripted) that tells the true story of Canadian bank robber Edwin Boyd (Scott Speedman).
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.02.2012
Sick of losing your money in a volatile stock market? Start buying art instead. That’s been the strategy of the world’s wealthiest investor...
AP | Posted 05.02.2012
NEW YORK — George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot d...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.01.2012
By avoiding the easy cliché of the cold arranged marriage, Markovits intensifies the emotional heft of the story -- and forces the reader to be moved by the characters' fates.
Posted 05.02.2012
Women wielding hand drills assemble dive-bombers and an infantryman crouching next to tires brandishes a Garand rifle; these scenes in the photos belo...
AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 05.01.2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A middle school teacher in South Carolina has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, telling the boy "this i...
Aby Sam Thomas | Posted 04.30.2012
Amid the grey cobblestones that line the narrow streets of this ancient city are some that seem to demand the attention of a passer-by. A closer look reveals that these cobblestones are, in fact, brass plated and each one has a small history lesson engraved on it.
Michael Roth | Posted 04.30.2012
The Patagonian Hare is full of Lanzmann's cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created Shoah, his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the masterworks of cinema.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 04.28.2012
In the 11 years since she held one of the highest positions in American government as secretary of state, Madeleine Albright has been a professor, Dem...
Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D. | Posted 04.25.2012
My father taught me about honor, integrity and service. He also taught me about loyalty and sacrifice. My father fought to keep custody of all four of us when my parents eventually divorced. It cost him everything he had.
Daniel N. Nelson | Posted 04.24.2012
What will today's veterans say about their multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan? How will they explain to their children and grandchildren, if they are able, why they or their friends sustained their grievous physical or mental injuries?
Kathleen Fordyce Rohan | Posted 06.01.2012