Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost ... on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules of chess before he learned ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost ... with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war, his aggressive style of play without fear ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky ... Leningrad with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war, his aggressive style of play without fear of sacrifice ...

Like many idealistic efforts throughout history, the League of Nations teetered for years before its final collapse as the ...

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial ...

After working as a spy during World War II and the Cold War, he returned to his family’s ... After the war, Sichel continued his spy work for the Central Intelligence Agency, reporting on the Soviet ...

Revellers were keen to buy US and Soviet Union flags alongside union jacks ... to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...