In December 1944, during the final months of World War 2, a small American reconnaissance platoon stood directly in the path ...

To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard Waffen-SS. Europe was filled with large groups of refugees, ...

A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945 ...

The late Marcel Ophuls made films about the twentieth century’s great crimes—and the trail of guilt they left behind.

The U.S. tried to ban them from military service, but these Japanese-American veterans ultimately became some of the most decorated soldiers in history. Japanese American infantrymen of the U.S.

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...