The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Commu­nity, will take place the week after next. There is no other case where a group of sovereign states has ...
May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German Armed ...
On May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman went on the radio at 9 a.m. and delivered the news that the people of Syracuse, as well as the rest of the nation, had been waiting for. “This is a solemn but a ...
THE confusion let loose by the surrender of the German armies in Central Europe is resolving slowly into order. The homeward trek of nearly 4,000,000 demobilized members of the Wehrmacht and the ...
PARIS, May 8, 1945 (UP) - The bloodiest war in European history will come to its official end at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow, European time, with the formal end of hostilities on a continent desolated by more ...
Solemn ceremonies will be held at war memorials in towns and villages across France on Thursday as the country honours its dead and marks the 80th anniversary of the second World War Victory in Europe ...
Like much modern history writing, this book is as much interpretive essay as it is descriptive and narrative history, and its interpretive tools are those of the economist. Eichengreen's key thesis is ...