In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had landed on Normandy during D-Day and the Soviets were slowly penetrating Eastern ...

The Iron Cross is one of the most widely recognised military decorations throughout the world. The story behind its origins brings us back to the Napoleonic wars. In 1813, Prussian King Frederick ...

From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years ...

Europe’s tragedy holds urgent lessons for South Asia on unity, pluralism, and escaping permanent geopolitical crisis.

The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.

A PROPOSED new logo for the UK Independence Party (Ukip) which was compared to a Nazi symbol has been rejected by the Electoral Commission.

Otto Busse secretly supported the Jewish resistance in the Bialystok ghetto, defying Nazi rule and offering a lasting lesson ...

The goal of the series is to gently introduce children ages eight to 12 to stories of courage and sacrifice during the ...

What we’ve got instead is the same leftover stuff that came out at Friday’s round of events, where Pete Alonso talked about ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

Daniel Siemens is Professor of European History at Newcastle University and the author of Stormtroopers: A New History of ...

However, prior to the rise of the United States as a great power, saviour of Europe and later as a superpower, the European ...