The Prideaux loader was one of several early such devices patented and manufactured as early as 1893, but neither it nor any competitor saw much demand until the outbreak of World War One. At that ...

Di BBC World Service don speak to chemical weapons experts, whistleblowers from Georgia riot police, and doctors, and find di ...

In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands.

Georgia's authorities used a World War One-era chemical weapon to quell anti-government protesters last year, evidence ...

A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom ...

Durban has always been a key Naval port and the old picture today shows HMAS Australia leaving the port of Durban probably ...

A World War One medal consigned to the scrap heap and lost for 55 years has been reunited with the 98-year-old son of the soldier originally awarded it. Willie Greaves served with the West Yorkshire ...

The First World War heroes had been buried in unmarked graves in South London for over a century but will finally get headstones ...

Think you know your WW1 and WW2 firepower? From classic bolt-action rifles to massive anti-tank guns, each legendary weapon ...

Inside the Hall of Presidents, visitors will find a lock of George Washington’s hair, cut by his wife Martha as he lay on his ...

After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting trillions of rubles into the Russian economy, the Kremlin can ...

"When the attack was about to commence, Piper Laidlaw, seeing that his company was somewhat shaken from the effects of gas, with absolute coolness and disregard of danger, mounted the parapet, marched ...