Beate Uhse, who as a destitute war widow sold birth control pamphlets from a bicycle before going on to develop Europe’s biggest emporium of erotic goods, died on Monday in a hospital in Switzerland.

Nancy Wake did not like killing people. But in wartime, she once told an interviewer, “I don’t see why we women should just ...

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

Minnesota native and World War II veteran Les Schrenk died earlier this week. He was 102 years old. In so many ways, Les ...

Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder ...

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

Given the presence of American military forces in south-eastern Europe, which have been deployed to deter Russia as part of ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

The Marine Corps rejected adopting the M7 rifle, citing concerns about size, weight, and its unique mission requirements.

Mutilation It all happened so quickly that few people noticed. In fifteen years, Europe went from being a large continent to ...

On Feb. 21, Sten Gould turns 100 years old. His wartime journals have preserved the voice of a soldier who copied Nazi morse code transmissions, walked through Hitler's bombed-out home and came home ...

Of the 16.4 million Americans who served in World War II, less than half a percent of those veterans are still with us and continue to share their stories. After all these years, some of them are just ...