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Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...
How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new book The Art Spy, reveals the amazing truth.
Troops of the Third Reich fought all over Europe, North Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and the Middle East during the Second World War. They earned a formidable reputation as being professional and ...
And they saw that the West cheered capitalism more than democracy. And since they got the worst form of capitalism and the ...
The 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the ...
As part of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division of the 7th Infantry Regiment, on May 4, 1945, Ralph "Cork" Bowers, of Stockertown, Northampton County, was one of the first troops inside the Nazi lair, ...
It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II.
Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that ...
Dr. Yurii Shapoval, a leading expert on World War II and Soviet history, speaks to Kyiv Post about Ukraine and its people ...
Never Again” – is not just a slogan, but also a civic duty. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The French countryside inland of the D-Day beaches provided some of the toughest fighting terrain of WWII. The 'bocages' ...
The Anzac biscuit myth Soldiers at the front had biscuits, of a sort, in their rations but these were more like 18th century “ship’s biscuit”, or hard tack, called “tile”, “wafers”, or “army biscuits” ...