Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

World War II was exactly as it was billed, fought all over the world. World War II movies, of which there are many, are set ...

Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...

Ships offshore providing fire support to the landings helped encourage the battery to cease fire, including USS Arkansas, a pre-World War I battleship.

To boost troop morale and keep an eye on postwar reconstruction, the US Army requisitioned dozens of hotels across southern ...

A new home for the Hamburg State Opera is meant to increase the city’s international standing. But some say its choice of ...

But after a flurry of concern, Europe’s major powers rolled over and went back to sleep. Moscow’s full-scale invasion of the rest of Ukraine, in 2022, got their full attention, leading to increases in ...

The Australian Strategic Institute described this moment as “a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.” In the mid-20th ...

Interview - Providing key insights into current affairs, President Isaias Afwerki sat down with national media outlets on July 19, 2025. The wide-ranging first part interview delved into timely global ...

Kalynove, UkraineBrothers Andrii and Maksym are the last two children left in Kalynove, their mother says.This small village ...