During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

The British aristocrat, daughter of Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley, may appear to have always lived in the shadow of her ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

Fans of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels have long speculated that the author's time in naval intelligence during the Second ...

From colonial revolts to quiet resistances, these historical fiction novels challenge everything you were taught about the ...

The former journalist made his name with the story of a failed assassination plot on Charles de Gaulle. Read more at ...

Three teens – two of them Jewish, one of them Christian – so enjoy each other’s company that they promise they shall always be friends, no matter what. [Donald H. Harrison] ...

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional idea was a "giant firework".

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Novelist Frederick Forsyth, who authored best-selling thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War, has died ...

Good fashion earns its right to be remembered.” Those words weren’t just spoken by Claire McCardell, but she lived up to them ...

Missing in debates about free trade and tariffs is discussion both about the movement of people between countries, and the challenge of not having a credible unit of account to facilitate trade.