World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly ...

In 1945, while recovering from an ankle injury he got while skiing in Bavaria, Doctor Maertens discovered that a new use for ...

A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

Once an exciting voice in German cinema, 'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer has run out of things to say, delivering a ...

“With eggs in limited supply and inflation a topic of the day, it’s perhaps not untimely to recall that, in post-World War I Germany, the price of a dozen eggs went from three marks to 4 billion marks ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Three nights of unrelenting bombing destroyed Dresden in 1945. As snow fell at the weekend, neo-Nazi supporters took to its ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

Sir Keir Starmer has sided with Volodymyr Zelensky after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a dictator. The US ...

Fresh from the Himalayas, Brit Kenton Cool stands in his garage in the British Cotswolds stowing away climbing gear: a bright ...

Cruise ships and ocean liners have been a popular form of leisure travel for well over a century, with luxury seafaring still ...