In the winter of World War II, Germany unleashed its most powerful tanks in a final attempt to break the Allied advance. Led ...

Stan Friday, 96, had not been back to Normandy since the war. Before this week, Stan Friday had not been back to Normandy, France, since he and Allied forces stormed its beaches to liberate Europe ...

Few weapons of World War II inspire as much admiration and controversy as Germany’s armored vehicles, machines often praised ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most conversations.

Introduction -- Airpower theory and application during World War II -- France -- Germany -- Great Britain -- Italy -- Japan -- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) -- United States "This volume ...

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, books by Hastings, Moorhouse, Clavin, and Passmore shed new light on the conflict.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ...