When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

Mabel Wulff from Newport lived in Nazi Germany - surviving years of Gestapo harassment and bravely fighting fires caused by ...

“I would have liked to have spared you this difficult decision,” said Mr. Scholz during an impromptu ... a rarity in Germany since World War II, possibly in March. The extraordinary trouble ...

Scientists reached this conclusion, detailed last week in the journal Science, after studying the effects of sugar rationing in the United Kingdom during World War II. Researchers and public ...

One night in 1943, a group of U.S. Marines fighting Japanese forces on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific struggled for hours with using a machine to decode a message from their regiment ...

Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany ... Jones Jr. grew up here during World War II. He is a retired Navy captain, military historian ...

Over the years, one often-repeated statement published online, in books and repeated in oral histories of World War 2 is that the Allied powers – specifically the United States Army Air Force ...

Before shipping overseas for World War II, Bud Sabetay enjoyed a trip to Coney ... had served in Siberia during World War I and owned an auto-wrecking company. Sabetay’s mother, a homemaker ...

During his time with the elite airborne unit, Fraser struck up a close and unexpected friendship with Lieutenant Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne – the most famous of all SAS heroes. Their ...

As devastating as that bombing was, the story of the Swansea home front - or how civilians cope during war - is much more diverse. In a new account, author and local historian Bernard Lewis aims ...

Tennis Channel analyst Jon Wertheim has been suspended by the network after making an inappropriate comment on the air about the appearance of reigning Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejčíková.

A World War II film made in the midst of the war, for instance, might serve a propagandist purpose than one made after the war ends, when there’s more room for nuance and complexity, but it also ...