In May 1940, as German forces sealed the Dunkirk pocket, the SS division later known as Das Reich faced one of its earliest and most dangerous tests. French and British counterattacks struck its ...

The Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, broke the spine of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and opened the decisive Western Front, ...

The organisation faces a potential rival in Donald Trump’s fledgling ‘Board of Peace’. But as a forum for US power, it would ...

I track my characters from the dog-days of the pandemic to an undisclosed near future where mainstream politics has collapsed and a populist revolt is unleashed.

Long known for its olives and seaside charm, the southern Greek city of Kalamata has found itself in the spotlight thanks to a towering mural that ...

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, ...

Secret WWII project Operation PLUTO laid HAIS and HAMEL undersea pipelines to pump fuel from England to liberated Europe, keeping Allied armies moving.

A new novel by Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Tayari Jones, an interconnected novel in translation, a World War Two novel, and more.

How Russian popadantsy sci‑fi uses time travel to rewrite history, projecting nostalgia for empire and fantasies of Russia as ...

Tuesday brought another blow from the air in France. U.S. 8th Air Force went for the submarine base at St. Nazaire—those thick concrete shelters the U-boat war ...

The world-renowned guitarist made his debut in 1976 and subsequently attracted public attention far beyond that accorded to ...

Yet, for months, a pragmatic alliance between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ...