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This dramatic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series features Europe's changing face in the wake of World War II. In the unrest and chaos that ensued after centuries of neglect, Communism saw its greatest chance and the years of Stalinist expansion began. These were also the years of the Marshall Plan, European economic recovery, and the formation of NATO to defend Western Europe from Soviet aggression. This video from the National...

In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic - comparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Both images serve as microcosms for their respective conflicts. Afterimages looks at the work of war photographers like Hondros and Ut to understand...

Every decade has its share of important events. But in this completely engrossing series we bring you only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential. You will see a unique clarity of history through the "most privy" in insider accounts and expert witnesses. Events include: Adolf Eichmann, The Berlin Wall, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Assassination Of U.S. President Kennedy, The "Loudmouth": Cassius Clay, A Royal...

"At the end of World War II, roughly 300,000 American GIs were deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those informal interactions played a significant role in the transformation of Germany from enemy to ally of the United States, argues Petra Goedde in her engrossing book." "Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they...