The Japanese conquered Java in eight days. They surged inward from the northern coasts, took the capital at Batavia, chopped up the long island into isolated bits, reduced the naval base at Surabaya ...

Tunku Varadarajan is always a good read, but in his review of David Van Reybrouck’s “Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World” (Books, May 25), he is wrong in stating that the Japanese ...

Since the Battle of Java, Pilot Grant Mahoney of the U.S. Army Air Forces has been sweating out a fifth aerial victory, which would make him an ace (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week Grant Mahoney, by now a ...