In 1942, the Japanese surged through the Dutch East Indies, conquering territory at an incredible pace. By February, Japanese ...

By January 1943, Leningrad had been cut off for nearly 17 months, with starvation and relentless German pressure threatening ...

The Japanese conquered Java in eight days. They surged inward from the northern coasts, took the capital at Batavia, chopped up the long island into isolated bits, reduced the naval base at Surabaya ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...