Stuart Canin was one of many GIs in Europe after World War II, but his violin made him different. The Rifleman Who Fiddled For Truman, Churchill And Stalin Seventy years ago, shortly after defeating ...
The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...
War’s thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second ...
Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a look back at the Potsdam Conference. Potsdam seems to fade into the shadows ...
March 5, 1946, was a historic day in Jefferson City and Fulton. These two tiny specks on the world globe were awaiting the arrival of two of the world's greatest leaders of the day. Former Prime ...
President Truman quickly assured the world that he intended no basic change in U.S. foreign policy, and the world believed him.* Yet even as he took the oath, the shudder of inevitable change ran ...
Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...
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