Following World War II, Winston Churchill was facing two daunting political and governing challenges in pivoting from serving ...

War is brutal, exhausting, and, more often than not, meaningless. That's one key message that Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World War II picture Das Boot puts across more powerfully than most war movies.

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In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

Following World War II, Winston Churchill was facing two daunting political and governing challenges in pivoting from serving ...

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Submarines were a deadly and dangerous threat that lurked below the surface and there have been some fantastic films looking at their horrors.