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.

What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...

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

Amid allegations of violent extremism, Alexei Miltchakov, a neo-Nazi, taught a 'courage' lesson in a Saint Petersburg school, ...

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 ...

Operation Good Cheer is a decades-old program that matches U.S. soldiers with German families during the holidays.

In May 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, a bizarre battle unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops from the U.S.

Mervyn Kersh, who also witnessed the horrors of the newly-liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, is proud of his ...

On Christmas 1914, the Christmas Truce saw German, British, French and Russian soldiers pause World War I for carols, ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

Christmas is traditionally intended to be a time of peace and celebration—but most recent wars have continued unabated during the holiday season.

The experience at battle solidified Howard Buford’s approach to life. ‘I don’t carry grudges around. I don’t carry anger around.” ...