Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk to Normandy, that belief was tested, challenged, and ultimately overturned.

Despite the Pact of Steel, many German soldiers regarded Italy as an unreliable partner in war. Poor equipment, weak ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

Casey Chong presents a selection of underrated World War II romance movies to add to your watchlist… World War II has ...

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

Looking back over 2025 I remember all the books, articles and TV programmes produced to commemorate the ending of World War ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...