Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

On December 26, 1776, the full might of General George Washington’s Continental Army was revealed along the frozen riverbanks of ...

When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...

When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered on February 2, 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was supposed to be over. It ...

Vasily Zaytsev was a Soviet sniper who fought during the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the decisive engagements on the Eastern ...

Defence giants are drawing battle lines as Germany rearms, with the old guard arguing for traditional heavy weaponry while start-ups push for more modern kit such as AI-enabled drones. Chancellor ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

After the disaster at Stalingrad, Germany’s High Command was divided. Should they retreat, rebuild, or gamble everything on a massive assault at Kursk?” This WWII documentary explores the storm that ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable. The Battle of ...