Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, ...

Written under the alias Mary Westmacott, Christie described it as ‘the one book that has satisfied me completely – the book I ...

Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Toruń, Wieliczka, Malbork, Białowieża, Masuria, Zakopane, Lublin, and Łódź—plus pacing, ...

Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the ...

Eddy Shah, who has died aged 81, was a publisher of local “free-sheet” newspapers in the north-west of England whose ...

Two British men were arrested by French police in Calais on Sunday night. In a statement the Pas-de-Calais prefecture ...

I am writing, of course, about Will Jennings, a son of East Texas and former English professor who went on to a career as one of the most eminent songwriters ever. Will Jennings was born into a ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

On April 18, 1988, the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms, sunk one frigate and a missile boat, crippled a second ...

She was a familiar face alongside husband Michael Foot as he bid to become prime minister - but long-time Hampstead resident Jill Craigie was among the first women to break into British film-making.

When a national historic group appears in Wilmington in February, its singers will be performing in the hometown of one of its most storied members.