After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

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

With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...

The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France ...

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

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George Hope, left, accompanied his father, Nick, to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp ...

MOSCOW - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," the Prosecutor ...

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

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re fighting in WW2 or you’ve taken to a future ... Hitler before the outbreak, causing the Soviet Union to become the de facto baddies.