In April 1945, Marshal Georgy Zhukov expected a swift breakthrough on the road to Berlin. Instead, his opening assault ran ...

At the end of April nineteen forty-five, the heart of Berlin was a landscape of shattered stone and choking smoke. The Red Army had pushed the Wehrmacht and their last auxiliaries into the very center ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Harry Olmer, who has died aged 98, was a Holocaust survivor brought to the United Kingdom after the war as one of the ...

Leah* is already battling with both her fellow pupils and teachers over the wording for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day ...

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

What should have been a brief trip 74 years ago this month turned into a disaster-movie-scale nightmare. Think of it as “The ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...

Marshal Zhukov, decorated Soviet commander, risked Stalin's wrath for his Coca-Cola addiction. The solution? A clear version ...

A Wilmington native who died while being held as a prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II has been positively identified through analysis of his remains, U.S. military officials said this ...