This article looks at the 7 most powerful countries before World War 2 and dives into one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. You can skip our detailed analysis and go directly to the 5 ...

Parallels with World War II This is not a phenomenon we see often. The last time we saw it was before World War II when every region in Eurasia started to destabilize.

On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War Bernard Wasserstein. Simon & Schuster, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9427-7.

The lessons from World War II — we have five of them to share — are critical for understanding how to restore and maintain long-lasting and just peace and security in Europe today, when they ...

In “On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War,” Bernard Wasserstein argues that European Jews were a doomed civilization even before the Holocaust.