While German troops froze and bled at Stalingrad, Rudel led daring bombing runs through smoke and rubble. In the Caucasus, he flew over mountains; in Kuban, he obliterated supply boats. This part ...

Surrender wasn’t the end—it was the beginning of something worse. For the survivors of Stalingrad, captivity meant a brutal new reality: frostbitten death marches, disease-ridden camps, and hunger ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare. MacGregor uses visually enticing description and lively ...

Guards Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Bavykin made 92 sorties during the Second World War. At least three times he was on the verge of death.

For the combatants in the gender wars, it’s been quite a spring and summer here in the TERF Island theatre of battle. In February, polling company YouGov revealed the vast extent to which ...

The autobiographical manifesto of Germany’s Adolf Hitler was published for the first time on July 18, 1925. During its first ...