Summer 1942. German staff-officers bent over maps in a village headquarters west of the Don. The front that had nearly ...

The Battle of the Barents Sea should have been a triumph for Nazi Germany. Instead, it ended in the destruction of its ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...

Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot ...

The bill - and subsequent reporting - speaks extensively about the "genocide" of Soviet prisoners, the concentration camps, ...

Various land-based fighters were converted to become seaplanes during the Second World War. A few were very impressive, like ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement ...

Historian Jürgen Matthäus solves one of the mysteries surrounding the image known as ‘The Last Jew of Vinnitsa,’ which ...

“For what I have done, the nation will call me a traitor”: the words reputedly spoken by Czech leader Emil Hácha after he ...

America’s removal - and capture - of Nicolas Maduro unfolded with speed and precision. On January 3, in a mission later ...