Tag: world war ii

Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House museum contains the diary Anne Frank kept during her long days in hiding. It is haunting yet beautiful at the same time.

The Nanjing Massacre

The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Wing Tek Lum's poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers.

A Bridge Too Far

In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines.