Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to follow up his brilliant victories over Austria and Prussia with another decisive victory over the ...

Argentina was captivated by the arrest of a German of humble origins who was mistaken for Adolf Hitler’s closest confidant ...

Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility ...

Frieda Reichmann grew up in East Prussia in a family where education was prized and where she gained a broad background in music and culture. She wanted to pursue medicine, however, and earned her ...

But amid freezing winter conditions, his attempted encirclement of General Bennigsen's Russian army near the East Prussian town of Eylau led, instead, to one of the most notorious battles of the ...