The years following the Peace Jubilee brought transition, preservation and new challenges to Vicksburg National Military Park ...

Hitler’s assault on the Soviet Union aimed at controlling valuable oil fields. It ensnared German forces in a catastrophic ...

World War II produced plenty of famous tanks, planes, and ships. It also produced some deeply strange vehicles, some of ...

Hougoumont and its green cover became a natural barrier against direct French assault on allied forces and an obstacle in ...

NOAA found a 1941 Ford Super Deluxe Woody inside USS Yorktown, 5,200 meters under the Pacific, where it sank during WWII.

JRR Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, Harold Macmillan, Antony Eden … these famous names couldn’t be more dissimilar but they all ...

The First Special Service Force was a joint American-Canadian commando unit trained in parachuting, mountain warfare, skiing, ...

World War 2 was fought with weapons, strategy, and plenty of deception. Allied forces used fake tanks, false radio traffic, ...

The echoes of Vichy are everywhere in American Christian nationalism. There is much the same critique of liberalism — that ...

Great Patriotic War veteran Fiodor Feshchenko about pre- and post-war life: I felt my place was on battlefield. Fiodor ...

• The youngest American WWII veterans are now in their late 90s.

By the end of World War II, Churchill would admit a grudging respect for Eisenhower. The romantic and the realist learned to work together.