The bloodiest conflict in human history was kick started on September 1, 1939, when over 1.5 million German soldiers crossed ...

Manned human torpedoes were first conceived by the British Royal Navy in the early 1900s, but it was Italy that first used them effectively in combat during World War II. By the early 1940s, Italy ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II ... 80 years after Germany ... These places became familiar after the war as bywords for the terrible material and moral capacities of human ...

Germany lost over 5 million soldiers in World War II. As battle lines shifted rapidly, many were buried in unmarked or forgotten graves, especially in places like Halbe, where one of the war’s ...