One of the most dramatic and unexpected events of WWII, was the collapse of France and the Low Countries in 1940. France was the most powerful military power in the world at the time. Britain, its ...

The latest Victory Day parade in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary of Germany's independence defeat in May will be bookended in the upcoming September with a commemorative parade at Tiananmen Square ...

He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by Germany in World War II.

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July 19 and 20 have witnessed numerous pivotal moments throughout history.Moving back in time, on July 19, 1848, the Seneca ...

The Arabs consider all the territory west of the Jordan to be the goal of "free Palestine," and they openly declare this.

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...

On Saturday, July 14, 1945, Versailles was celebrating as it had not done in years. But the carefree spirit of some clashed ...

Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during ...

The Slovakia festival due to welcome Kanye West next week has called off the event following the uproar over the US rapper's ...

Even as the U.S. begins to expand its military, it is also revising its military doctrines and warfighting concepts to adapt ...

No other act of resistance against Adolf Hitler had such a long-term impact as the assassination attempt by Claus Schenk Graf ...