The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Commu­nity, will take place the week after next. There is no other case where a group of sovereign states has ...
“The Mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945, Eisenhower.” With that simple statement, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, announced the ...
IN THE military sense, the total defeat of the Germans became inevitable when France and Belgium were cleared after the Normandy campaign and when Russia displayed her growing power in the offensives ...
The war situation in NW Europe had been fairly static during the early winter months of 1944 but had suddenly "exploded" with a fierce, and initially successful, German counter-attack on the American ...
An exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin asks: How did Europe deal with post-war life? The unfathomable ramifications of World War II are made real through personal accounts. On May 8th ...
Like much modern history writing, this book is as much interpretive essay as it is descriptive and narrative history, and its interpretive tools are those of the economist. Eichengreen's key thesis is ...