World War II

World War II is mentioned in 18,328 articles and has appeared on 174 TIME covers

World War II Articles

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  • Aug. 14, 1939
    In World War II, if it comes, some nations may avoid fighting. But they will certainly not go untouched. Just as modern warfare is no respecter of lives, soldier or civilian, so it is no respecter of the pocketbooks of neutrals. To every neutral nation that has risen above the level of primitive handicrafts, a ...
  • Jan. 8, 1951
    Early in 1950, the London Economist's Geoffrey Crowther, a footloose editor with a nose for news, made his annual inspection trip of U.S. industry. "I came here expecting to see a boom," he said, "but nothing I had read prepared me for this. The very air smells of boom. For the firsttime, the U.S. is ...
  • Aug. 27, 1979 | By HP-Time.com;Frank Trippett
    War, as Jonathan Swift put it, is that "mad game the world so loves to play." If the game is even madder these days because of the threat of nuclear annihilation, the world has learned to keep alive humanity's fascination with it by doing what both Homer and the Bible did so well: replaying the ...
  • Sep. 13, 1943
    Ask John Citizen, anywhere from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., is he against war and he will say Yes, sure. Sure he's against war. Even smack in the midst of a war that is being won, war in the abstract, war in the future, is about as popular as the man-eating shark. Sure he's against ...
  • Apr. 15, 1985
    Viet Nam cost America its innocence and still haunts its conscience
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World War II Photo Essays & Graphics

  • A Brief History of World War II Movies: As Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds hits theaters, TIME looks back on some of the finest ever WWII flicks to light up the silver screen By Glen Levy
    As Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds hits theaters, TIME looks back on some of the finest ever WWII flicks to light up the silver screen By Glen Levy
  • Multimedia: Faces of D-Day: Photographer David Burnett revisits the Normandy invasion with the help of World War II veterans
    Photographer David Burnett revisits the Normandy invasion with the help of World War II veterans