The ex-British Army soldier’s unit of international volunteers defended Serebryansky forest on a battlefield reminiscent of the Somme ...

The French countryside inland of the D-Day beaches provided some of the toughest fighting terrain of WWII. The 'bocages' ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to ...

At a vigil in France, the Duke of Cambridge paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, saying “we lost the flower of a generation”. Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the ...

More than 100 SS troops appeared out of the woods that morning. Despite the state of the German military, they had plenty of ...

The diary of a 17-year-old soldier from Co Armagh who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme highlights the horrors of the bloodiest battle of the First World War. Taking place between ...

When most military history buffs think of Soviet tanks during World War II, chances are they think of the T-34. This is understandable, since it, along with America’s M4 Sherman, were the two Allied ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

Often overshadowed by its NATO counterparts, the French Leclerc is a cutting-edge main battle tank that combines speed, ...