World Wars I and II proved to be more than a political crisis: they were a spiritual one

Some people found religion in the experience of wartime, but others lost it

Mussolini, two popes, and hundreds of false papers

Corrie ten Boom worked to save Jews; Edith Stein was martyred because she was one

The world wars served as a pivotal time for Christian relief efforts

Cigarettes, chaplains, and the Confessing Church

Readers respond to Christian History

Heroic, fascinating, and troubling stories from the great wars

Tragedy dogged Emperor Franz Joseph

Wilson took the United States into a European war

Churchill's speeches encouraged Britain and the allies during World War II

Stalin's brutality defeated Germany but replace Nazism with Communism

FDR led the United States during most of World War II

Hitler’s early successes fatefully brought him widespread German support

Firing Scriptural “grenades” over war on the home front

Wilson counseled war after campaigning to keep America out of it

J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and the crucible of World War I

A philosopher found God in the trenches

A million soldiers may have suffered from trench fever

Chaplains in the Great War

Conscientious objectors rejected a world at war

The Christian pacifist who went to war

In the space of just over three decades, large portions of the world were plunged into life-changing conflict

Christians and Nazism

Jewish blood was in Christ's veins

Grace is costly because it was costly to God

The saga of Jews—and Christians—in Romania

Orthodox and atheists in Russia

The general who ordered Bibles and the mission that held on

Excerpts from two war sermons

What sparked Fuchida’s interest in Christianity?

He would not leave until the last Japanese had left

Four men recall war at the front

The landscape of resources about faith in the world wars is vast. Here are some recommendations from CH editorial staff and this issue’s authors.