There is never a good time for war. But for Julia Parsons, the outbreak of World War II came at the right time. In 1942, Parsons was a senior at Carnegie Tech — soon to be Carnegie Mellon University — ...

In 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". He was responding to the Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact negotiated on the eve of World War II.