After liberating Paris in August 1944, the Allied advance into Germany slowed due to severe logistical problems. Hitler ...

Operation Barbarossa was the largest military invasion in history, launched by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941.

A new documentary, "Second Wind," highlights Ukraine's wounded veterans, following four amputee soldiers and a female sniper, ...

The horrors of World War II have served as the basis of some of cinema's most gripping historical dramas, from The Bridge on ...

HMS Belfast' It's a 12,000 tonne light cruiser moored on the River Thames in the middle of London. It's the last surviving ...

Streaming this week are two new documentaries that make for a fascinating pair of character studies about photojournalism, ...

"The AK47, or Avtomat Kalashnikova in Russian, has been the world's most used automatic rifle since it was first introduced ...

A Russian court slapped Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a 850,000-rouble ($11,000) fine on Saturday after finding him ...

For Long Islanders who remember, former Vice President Dick Cheney was the controversial figure who, as the defense secretary ...

Dr Daniel Cowling, Senior Historian at the National Army Museum, traces the battles that continued long after VJ Day was ...

Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, the grandson of the Soviet Armenian politician Anastas Ivanovich (Hovhannesi) Mikoyan (1895-1978 ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...