Although he had promised—and campaigned on—a policy of American neutrality in World War II the year before, Roosevelt ached to help the Allies stem the increasingly ravenous Nazi threat sweeping ...

Europe's second-longest river at 1,770 miles. Perennial droughts and heat waves have led to drastic drops in water levels each year, exposing German ships while simultaneously threatening the ...

The Blitz was over, a Nazi invasion looked ... and there was no sign of a “second front” opening in Europe. So what better than to take a heroic story from earlier in the war about the ...

Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...