123rd Officer Cadet Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942
A group portrait of the R.A. from 1942, an inauspicious time to go through training
Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic
All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history
Chocolat Pupier Asian cultures album, France, 1936
A 1936 collectible album for children, embedded with the politics of its age
Letter from Japan the day WWII ended
My grandfather’s firsthand account of the destruction of Japanese cities
French diary from WWII
The cramped hand suggests a shortage of paper, the mysterious letters and numbers hint at a code
Malcolm Gladwell’s inexplicable indulgence of an anti-Semite
Was the L’Oréal founder and Nazi collaborator merely a pragmatist, as Gladwell contends?