Sitting in a bar on 52nd Street, WH Auden read in the “folded lie” of a newspaper about the accession of Danzig to the Third Reich. The poem he would write about the events of that night is the ...

German troops shown marching through Warsaw after their invasion of Poland in September 1939. (National Archives and Records Administration) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...

It's been 85 years since the start of World War Two. Britain and France declared war on Germany and its allies, two days after Germany invaded Poland. On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville ...

We all have experience of the most memorable day in our lives — all relating to different events, with brief or lifetime affects. But for most of us aged 70 or thereabouts, there is one most memorable ...

Much like this summer, and in sharp contrast to some of the prior scorching summers during the 1930s “Dust Bowl,” the summer of 1939 was heat-deprived. Through the end of August 1939, the city had ...

War was announced on 3 September 1939. But the BBC had been secretly preparing for years, so that broadcasting might carry-on whatever happened. The BBC and World War Two The BBC and World War Two War ...

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You will burn. You will freeze. And the moon will explode. Four gruesome apocalypse scenarios from the September 1939 issue of Popular Science. By Rose Pastore Published Apr 5, 2013 2:00 AM EDT Get ...