Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last major offensives on the Eastern Front, Operation Konrad I. This dramatic ...

As far back as 2010, Putin insisted that Russia could have won World War II without Ukraine, ignoring outright the seven million Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army, Ukraine’s eight million ...

The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to ...

Archaeology Medieval crowns of Eastern European royalty hidden in cathedral wall since World War II finally recovered News By Kristina Killgrove published 9 January 2025 ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Women of World War II: The Untold Stories Episode 1 | 58m 33s | CC Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front, cracked codes and broke ...

Love for the motherland, or patriotism, is the third element in China’s World War II narrative, alongside hatred of Japanese ...

“This is history that you have in front of you,” said Cuisiner, whose grandfather told him stories of living through World War II while aiding the French resistance in the countryside.

Eighty years ago today (May 8, 1945) was the official end of World War II in Europe, a conflict that claimed millions of lives there and defeated Nazi Germany.

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Dec 3 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Tuesday for major reinforcement of sectors in eastern Ukraine of the 1,000-km (600-mile) front line, where Russian forces have made ...