Sligo’s poet W. B. Yeats died on January 28th 1939, two days before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech. The fascist rhetoric of the dictator’s speech on the annihilation of the Jews tragically ...

As Washington seeks to resolve the war in Ukraine with peace negotiations, these maps show what each side in the conflict is ...

The occupation of Poland may have turned out to be the last hurrah of Polish warplanes during WWII, but not the Polish combat pilots, more specifically the ones that escaped into exile in Great ...

For some soldiers confined in German POW camps during World War II, ‘Monopoly’ was so much more than just a board game.

Ukraine’s government wants to restore the country’s frontier to where it was before Russia launched its first invasion more than a decade ago. The U.S. defense secretary said that was “unrealistic.” ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...

The focus is on maps to illustrate war, rather than as a planning tool, and the chapter considers the particular significance of mapping fortifications. The eighteenth century: The growing need for ...

Trump also couched his threat of tariffs and tighter sanctions in words of "love" for the Russian people and highlighted his respect for Soviet losses in World War Two – a near-sacred topic for ...

The three-phase ceasefire has raised cautious hopes for an end to the war. Israeli bombardment of ... according to the World Bank. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN that it “does not ...