The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

“Recording Evil,” a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in World War II, has started filming across three continents. The documentary was commissioned by Israel’s ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re fighting in WW2 or you’ve taken to a future battlefield in, well, Battlefield. We’ve chosen some highlights from top-quality war games on PC ...

Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change life for women? When WW2 broke out, the women of ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf ... sometimes surprising timeline from All Creatures Great and Small’s historical advisor, Dr. Mark Roodhouse of the History ...

WARSAW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its neighbour's progress towards the European Union ...

The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939, according to a press release from Go Vilnius tourism promotion agency on Wednesday.

One of the most essential battles of World War II, it pitted Hitler's troops against Stalin's resistance soldiers as the Axis powers attempted to expand eastwards. The sheer numbers—millions of ...

Archaeologists have only recently unearthed a derelict 'horror bunker' containing evidence of the most heinous crimes committed during World War II following unconfirmed reports about a ...

Schumer (D-New York) sought to keep expectations in check during an afternoon news conference at the Capitol, calling the end of the freeze a “small victory” in a “long war.” At the same ...