A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.

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NATO has for years deployed multinational forces in the Baltic states and Poland to deter Russian attacks on the eastern ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

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Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

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