Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick fighters in public hospitals, and ran first-aid centers of their own.

Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...

A gimlet-eyed and honest accounting of the war’s hidden costs that still affect us today. Ad Policy Recently discharged Marine Faris Touhy recreates an image of him drinking a cup of coffee after two ...