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 ...

U.S. leaders also have spent years engaging ad nauseam in threats to weaken or break up Russia, to ruin the Russian economy, ...

Saturation bombing of civilians would be a universal feature of the Second World War, but eventually the US would reinvent the psychology of warfare.

Norman Ferguson's ‘The Second World War A Miscellany', published by Summersdale, is an accessible and fact-filled whistlestop tour through six years of conflict. The author tackles the war in ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

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

While superhero movie fans argue which is the better movie Superman of recent years, comic book fans know you can love many ...

MAX RODENBECK is Project Director for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group. He was previously Bureau Chief for the Economist in the Middle East, South Asia, and Germany.

The United States has been threatening to weaken Russia for years, and NATO has been aggressively approaching its borders. It ...

But we saw different pictures during the student-led July movement as students of private universities played brave and ...