Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to factory workers and frontline resistance fighters, women played critical roles ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

You think books have covered everything there is to write about World War II skullduggery, and then you stumble upon the book ...

A “protection force” was authorized by Congress in July to guard Mare Island and other Navy shore establishments. That ...

JOAN Wright was celebrating her 24th birthday at the Hotel Sydney on October 18, 1942, with her mother and sister, when she caught the eye of Ray Hodgson, a tall, blue-eyed, blond American.

A renowned Loveland sculptor and a woman who grew up here but now lives in France are working together to honor Joséphine ...

War has a way of stripping everything down to the essentials. When the shooting starts and the world narrows to survival and ...

Greek women in WWII—from resistance fighters to agents of social change who shaped womanhood into what it is today.

An ordinary woman in suburban Maryland unearths the horrifying secret of her family’s impact on the events of WWII in this page-turning debut memoir. Kuehn recalls receiving an inquiry in 1994 from a ...

In her riveting new novel titled "Shipyard Gals," Valerie Stoller has written about World War II from an unusually eye-opening point of view. The book is set in the Bay Area at the height of the war, ...

He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...

It's impossible to come to a new Sally Wainwright drama without thinking about the popular triumph that was Happy Valley – and Wainwright knows it, telling Digital Spy that it plays on her mind when ...