MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

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.

A small creek on Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named by soldiers fighting in the ...

Martin Reid found the letters and photographs wedged within an antique desk just before the 80th anniversary of VE Day ...

In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last ...

Lucas: President Donald Trump ought to demand the unconditional surrender of the Democrat Party as he did of Iran.

Germany is aiming to field the largest army in the European Union with a massive investment. Germany has a complicated relationship with its military, but a war on European soil and a U.S. president ...

80 years after his death in World War II, remains of Minnesotan's father finally identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire ...

World War II was a time of unimaginable hardship, courage, and transformation. Seemingly overnight, ordinary folks were thrust into extraordinary roles on both the front lines and the home front ...

World War II bomb discovered in Germany, 20000 evacuated TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) – About 20 thousand residents of the German city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony will be forced to leave their homes due to ...