Two of my paternal Cavan aunts worked as nurses in London during 2. Auntie Maggie vividly remembered the Blitz and dealing with ...

Historian Jim Claven shares the moving story of Mani's WWII legacy, ANZAC ties, and Patrick Leigh Fermor's enduring ...

A presidential portrait with Donald Trump’s approval now hangs in the Colorado Capitol after his complaints got a previous ...

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S.

Muslims from the Caucasus who joined the Wehrmacht – The 845th German-Arab Infantry Battalion and Its actions in Greece – ...

This find, made in May, serendipitously coincided with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation of Breslau in ...

The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...

Dear Richard Madeley: ‘I’ve already honoured my father’s memory – I don’t want another trip down memory lane’ I made the trip to my father’s war grave, but now my family want more – and I’m too old ...

Karl Berger’s “The Wound Closest to the Sun” is a layered and haunting historical novel that spans decades and nations—tracing the long shadows of war, guilt, and unspoken love. Set across three ...

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...

German soldiers stormed across Europe with unnatural stamina and fearlessness—thanks to Pervitin, a powerful methamphetamine widely distributed during the war. Donald Trump's approval rating ...