Dozens of pilots dropped more than 21 tons of candy across Berlin and when the airlift ended, the United States,…
. After France was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, a wave of retributions swept through the country. Nazi collaborators…
Over 2 days in February 1945, 3,900 tons of explosives were dropped over Dresden. Thirteen square miles and 100,000+ civilians were…
His biographer called them the most gruesome photographs of Robert Capa’s career. In a Leipzig flat, a young soldier lay…
. “One of the picture scoops of World War II,” Time magazine called it. The photos showed the sinking of…
Henri Cartier-Bresson spent ten months in China in 1949. LIFE published 26 photos of his in a special report (A…
. On 8 December 1941, seventeen Japanese bombers dropped bombs over the island of Singapore, the opening salvo in their…
Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple, writer and censorship fighter, died on March 17, aged 94.“Words are never enough," wrote Life magazine…
Jean Leslie, MI5 secretary whose photograph may or may not have changed the outcome of the Second World War, has…
As the Second World War came to a close, a wave of suicides swept Berlin and other parts of Germany. Hitler…