The bitter cold that gripped the Western Front during the winter months was a sharp contrast to the preceding summer of 1914. Temperatures in November ... over Russia would produce extreme cold in the ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the modern age continues with a video on how Germany lost in World War I. Why did Germany really lose World War I? In this ...

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme ...

Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set ...

On a quiet stretch of eastern Polish countryside in early September 1939, a battle unfolded that would be immortalized for ...

Eastern Front Collapse: The Soviet Union’s Red Army launched ... Hitler’s Health: Adolf Hitler’s suicide in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, did not immediately end World War II in Europe. Though ...

“Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II, I am hereby renaming ... in N ...

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf ...

It’s been eight decades since the guns on the Eastern Front fell silent ... It wasn’t actually the end of World War II however. The Battle of Odžak, in Bosnia, didn’t end until May 25 ...

However, a researcher with Germany’s University of Bremen is confident that the ceasefire along the current front line is a ... Germany’s defeat in World War II, Romanenko said.

In this area of Transcarpathia, a historical region in Eastern Europe that is now primarily ... The theater nearly went extinct during both World War I and II, but each time, after a long hiatus ...