How to end a war

In the final month of WWII, the Red Army launched a devastating strike into Manchuria, opening a new front with Japan and threatening invasion of the Home Islands

The first and second crises over the Taiwan Strait’s small islands were crucial battles in a decade of relentless fighting

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

MUKDEN, MANCHURIA, CHINA 23 FEBRUARY – 10 MARCH 1905

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories