Italian society, comfortably ensconced in the anti-fascist narrative, regarded the victory as its own. After Mussolini’s ...

In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...

The official transition for air travel was a matter of both convenience and necessity for the American president, and Teddy ...

Sky's new historical drama Nuremberg depicts the fateful meeting between Nazi Hermann Goering and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of ...

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On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

In 2011 he came across an article by Jack El-Hai that was to be the basis for El-Hai’s book about the relationship between ...

The "OK Boomer" phenomenon reflects deep generational divides in American politics, with younger voters increasingly ...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s hints at reviving tests of nuclear weapons recall a terrifying chapter of history — one ...

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's deep-seated fear of flying created ripple effects across global diplomacy during World ...

The New START treaty limited both the U.S. and Russia to 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 800 deployed and non-deployed launchers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a voluntary ...