Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...

As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

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 ...

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

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

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

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

As the war progressed Herbert says he and his mother learnt more about what happened to other members of their family. Some ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

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

Modern democracy looks stable on the surface, but small changes can push it toward collapse. Voters appear divided into two ...

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