Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Armored vehicles are sort of the ultimate bulwark when it comes to any sort of military ground operations. The First […] ...

This video tells the true story of Audie Murphy’s stand at Holtzwihr during World War II. It follows Murphy and the surviving ...

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

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

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective ...

One of the longest running Nazi restitution cases has taken another turn. On November 17, California’s Attorney General, Rob Bonta, filed a motion to intervene in the Cassirer family’s 20-year pursuit ...

A Grand Designs property once likened to a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp has gone on the market for £2.95 million following the death of its eccentric millionaire owner. The daring Japanese-inspired ...

Editor’s note: Volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the Battle of Tarawa’s 33 Pennsylvania fallen. Fayette County was ...

June 6, 1944. German Corporal Helmut Müller sat behind 3 meters of reinforced concrete, believing he was invincible. Then the first American naval shell struck from beyond the horizon—and everything ...