Many residents of the Voroshilov and Red Plowman farm cooperatives, fleeing from the Nazi brutalities, hid in cellars. German soldiers pelted their hiding places with grenades, and those who tried to ...

The ocean liner that ferried four presidents across the Atlantic Ocean and captured the world's imagination in the mid-20th ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

Camp out in glorious Normandy as you follow in the footsteps of Allied heroes ...

When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her ...

Belgian writer Caroline De Mulder, in a fascinating and terrifying work, describes the workings of the Lebensborn households in ‘Himmler’s Children’ ...

By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

The remains of thousands of Australian servicemen who died in the Pacific Theatre during World War II have yet to be ...

In December 1944, American soldiers serving in the Ardennes region of Belgium were suddenly struck by an overwhelmingly horde ...

We are all familiar with the Nazi practices of sending Jews to concentration camps, carrying out mass executions and instilling fear into German citizens through their paramilitary organisations like ...

According to expert assessments commissioned by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), the authority which last fall, ...

Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...