On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor.

A German Jewish refugee, he became a decorated CIA officer, facing off with the Soviets in Berlin, before resigning to lead ...

He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town ... for a post-war "cold" war that would ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold War. One side was ... with each side getting financial and military support from either the Soviets or ...