When winter arrived on the Eastern Front, Germany’s horse-dependent army faced its breaking point. A frontline account ...

THE Nazi assault on Bolshevik Russia ends one nightmare and begins another. The sinister prospect of a coalition between the two wings of world revolution, which haunted the minds of western statesmen ...

SUCH knowledge of my own countrymen as I have acquired while reaching a ripe middle age convinces me that one of the most cogent reasons against the imposition of harsh measures of repression on the ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef. The United States entered World War II as a result of the ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian ...

In this first of a three-volume history of WWII in Western Europe and the Mediterranean, British historian Holland (The Dam Busters) discusses the major battles, events, and factors important to the ...

World War II is the most intensively studied conflict in history, and nearly 60 years after its end, fresh information is still emerging. Beschloss' account of U.S. policy toward Germany during the ...

Multiple explosions were reported over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday morning. Ukraine's foreign minister compared the attack to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941. The attack came ...

Martin Lowenberg became a Jewish man, a bar mitzvah, 10 months before the Jews of Fulda were deported from Germany to Latvia, most of them to their deaths. The reading at his ceremony, from the ...

Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...