A collection of 16 posts
Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s extraordinary testimony about the Hiroshima attack and its aftermath has been published by his daughter some forty years after his death.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part Three: Independence Movements under Japanese Occupation
Southeast Asia in World War II, Part One: Japanese Conquests and British Disgrace
An interview with the curators of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, the first Holocaust museum founded by Holocaust survivors.
Evil pollutes everything it touches; for a long time I wrestled with my own shame, as though I bore some guilt by association.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
Garrett Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.
A riveting new book by American historian Lynne Olson re-examines the story of Ravensbrück, the Nazis’ notorious concentration camp for women.
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II.
A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
It wasn’t lost on black soldiers that they were being called upon to liberate oppressed peoples overseas, even as they faced prejudice in the United States.
The story of how I came to know one of those survivors, and chronicle her life.