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The desert battle where British tanks were cut down in minutes

In June 1941, confident after earlier victories in North Africa, British forces launched Operation Battleaxe to break the ...
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New Year’s Eve 1942 Was the Day of Hitler’s Biggest Arctic Fiasco

The Battle of the Barents Sea should have been a triumph for Nazi Germany. Instead, it ended in the destruction of its ...

How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers

Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from ...

Workers Were Building a Roadway—and Discovered Four Mass Graves Filled With Bodies

A total of four graves from two battles—which took place in 1745 and 1866—contained soldiers from different armies.