The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching ...

The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly 100 different images (a majority from the WWI era) addressing a variety of American war aims. The ...

Inspired by the modern Olympic Games and how the competition was organised and presented, the 1930 FIFA World Cup needed an identity. It needed a World Cup poster. And thus a graphic design tradition ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

The scale and diversity was crazy. The maps let you duke it out in all of WW2’s theatres so that you could fight as the British in El Alamein or the Imperial Japanese Navy in Iwo Jima.

Gladiator II got one but three spectacular new posters to promote its impending release on IMAX. The best one though is, of course, the one in which protagonist Lucius (Paul Mescal) is facing off ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

An American submarine that went missing in World War Two has been rediscovered at the bottom of the East China sea. The USS Grayback and its 80 crew members disappeared in 1944 when it was ...

From Stalingrad to the dropping of the atomic bomb, see key moments that shaped the outcome of WWII. Why it’s important to hear stories from WWII’s last living survivors Why it’s important ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

and authorities are investigating why the ordnance detonated after so many years underground Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and World War II ...