As the Allies fought their way inland from Normandy’s beaches in 1944, French fighters in Brittany distracted German forces by launching a guerrilla campaign codenamed “Operation Dingson.”
Due in part to its readiness to fight, Switzerland has spent centuries in relative peace
For centuries Armenian residents of the Transcaucasian stronghold of Kars watched invaders come and go—until its final betrayal
After being sidelined for nearly a year, Patton was turned loose with the Third Army in France. He made up for lost time. He told his staff to hustle—an ounce of sweat was worth a gallon of blood
Each war wagon used by Hussite forces was essentially a mobile fortress, manned by crews armed with field guns, hand cannons, crossbows and polearms
Lionel “Buster” Crabb, one of the Royal Navy’s most celebrated divers, disappeared while spying on a Russian warship in 1956
Here's what really unfolded at Chequers, Winston Churchill's country estate, following Japan's surprise attack on America's Hawaiian naval base on December 7, 1941.
The Battle of the Bulge is arguably the greatest — and largest — battle in American military history
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Anthony Tucker-Jones traces Winston Churchill's rise from young military officer to victorious British prime minister at the close of World War II
Varberg, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, is recasting the history of Viking seagoing expeditions and warfare
On Tuesday the entertainer, civil rights activist, and French Resistance hero joined the likes of 80 other luminaries, including Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie.
"The Boys from Brazil" (1978) stars Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele, biding his time in South America with plans to replicate Adolf Hitler and launch a Fourth Reich.
“Dammit, Brad, just give me 400,000 gallons of gasoline and I’ll put you inside Germany in two days"
Nicholas Jellicoe presents a biography of his father, George Jellicoe, a storied British commando in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered an iron mask worn by a cavalryman in ancient Rome’s army circa 1,800 years ago
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