Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Germany enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World War II, died May ...

A Bridge Too Far dramatises Operation Market Garden, the audacious yet doomed military operation undertaken by the Allied forces during World War II ... aiming to swiftly end the war by circumventing ...

In sharp contrast, audience reviews of the film were extremely positive and laudatory, with one viewer writing: “One of the ...

The city of Boca Raton has a past tied to World War II, with several “T-buildings” that are still standing after 83 years.

A Jewish World War II soldier from Michigan is being remembered for his extraordinary heroism that earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration.

Though the line of defense was extremely capable by World War II standards, it had a huge shortcoming. The French assumed that the Germans wouldn't invade through Belgium, which had been neutral ...

>> World War II ended officially in September 1945 with the unconditional surrender of the Japanese. Hope and his troupe performed their last camp radio show on Christmas Day, 1945, at Birmingham ...

World War II brought the strands of world history together. It is not enough to remember the dead, many of whom were deliberately rendered nameless by their killers. For those who survived, the ...

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers The ongoing recovery of the dead underscores how much remains unresolved as the world marks the 80th ...

In 1908, his son Siegfried Wagner, and later his daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner, took over the management. The couple supported Adolf Hitler as early as the 1920s, even before he came to power.

As a US soldier, George Leitmann, now 99, helped liberate Germany from National Socialism. Eighty years after World War II ended, he is sounding a warning against the return of fascism.

A search for the dead. As the world pauses this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the war’s end, the continued search for soldiers' remains is a reminder that the conflict’s legacy is not ...