Research by German scholars lifts the lid on Third Reich officials’ lingering influence as a recovering country desperate for experienced administrators looked the other way ...

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945 ...

A 90s war film often hailed as one of the best ever made is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Steven Spielberg’s 1998 epic ...

A small American reconnaissance platoon held a frozen ridge against an entire German force during the opening hours of the ...

"Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been ...

The military's strike on drug boats has brought into light the need to define what a war crime is, as the standard of conduct should be maintained at all times, even in the worst of conditions, and ...

Charles Wright Sydnor, Jr., a historian and Holocaust scholar who led the VPM network of public stations in central Virginia as president and CEO, died Nov. 28 in Abingdon, Va. He was 82.

The statue — 11 feet tall and weighing 3,500 pounds — is drawing fans after an initiative that was about 15 years in the making.

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

This week we see the anniversary of the passing of a remarkable man. A hero of two world wars as well as of a famous disaster in peace time, he ...