When growing up in his native Austria, Hitler was very close to his mother, Klara (pair pictured above). He would later write that her death - from breast cancer in 1907 - 'hardened' him.

Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.

Everyone knows Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker in 1945. What this CIA document presupposes is… maybe he didn’t? Hitler ...

New surveys report that boys are feeling discouraged in the classroom and are less likely to go to college. Is this true in your experience? By Shannon Doyne How do these journalists craft ...

The rise in unemployment significantly raised government expenditure on unemployment insurance and other benefits. Germans began to lose faith in democracy and looked to extreme parties on the ...

In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and ...

Stalin as mirror-image of Hitler, his relations with his secret police chiefs), but only now has Robert Service's full biography appeared and brought all the threads together. Service's chief merit is ...

Mark Carney, former two-time central banker, was sworn in as Canada's new prime minister earlier this month, after being elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On Sunday, he called a snap ...

With just hours to go until the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, we’ve detailed the key info you need to start gaming as soon as it lands. The new game sees the long-running stealth action series ...