Fury erupted after the Imperial War Museum shut The Lord Ashcroft Gallery after 15 years because so few people remember the ...

In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...

Fayetteville’s Liberty Tree holds a powerful legend, but the truth is more complicated than local lore suggests.

Fresh from the Netherlands, Das Reich was thrown into the brutal fighting around Dunkirk and the drive deeper into France, where surprise attacks, canal crossings, British counterblows, and desperate ...

Trotz, now 92, never stopped teaching, and even after he migrated and was officially long retired from the public service, he ...

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.

The Battle of Cape Passero (1940) unfolded in the early hours of October 12, during World War II. British cruiser hms Ajax, on a scouting mission after a Malta supply operation, encountered seven ...

Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by “Kiss me, Hardy”—his supposed last words?