On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of Normandy, a fierce clash unfolded between the American 101st Airborne and Germany’s elite paratroopers. Despite being dangerously short on supplies, U ...

It was this lane, fringed by shade trees and the deep-rooted tangle of hedgerows known as bocage—an ancient Normandy feature that had, since the landings on June 6, 1944, entangled both invaders ...

British historian Antony Beevor's 1998 Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege sold more than 1 million copies. If there's any justice in publishing today, his absorbing new D-Day: The Battle for Normandy ...

Normandy has more than 20 military cemeteries holding mostly Americans, Germans, French, British, Canadians and Polish troops who took part in the historic battle.

During his three-year stint, Kleindl kept an almost-daily diary recounting such historic events as landing on Utah Beach in Normandy and being in Bastogne, Belgium, for the Battle of the Bulge.

Several ceremonies are scheduled on Sunday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day that led to the liberation of France and Europe from the German occupation.

Along the base of the Normandy peninsula the fighting grew in violence. British troops around Caen smashed a series of desperate German counterattacks and ground ahead slowly. To the west, U.S ...

The Close Combat series has been in development just about as long as World War II lasted. In that time, the series went from the hedgerows of Normandy to the floodlands of Holland, out to the ...