Are military leaders fired in the middle of a war? Often, yes, but extreme circumstances are required to get to ...

Dr. Hiroya Sugano spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about a ceremony with an improbable artifact that honors U.S. airmen and Japanese citizens who died during World War II.

This video tells the story of the American paratroopers the Germans called “Devils in Baggy Pants.” It follows the 504th ...

Experience one of Sicily’s most breathtaking viewpoints in this immersive virtual tour of the Ancient Theatre of Taormina.

Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

In autumn 1943 SAS Lieutenant Alistair McGregor (pictured) and his seven men were dropped deep behind enemy lines, on Winston ...

Peasants and popes, free speech and fashion, sentimentality and special forces: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new history books of 2025.

The countdown to the holidays has begun. Christmas markets, mulled wine, ice skating — around the world, on every continent, people are starting to gear up to get into the festive spirit. But one ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the centuries have created a unique cultural identity. Sicily is said to be the ...

An artist's impression of a project to build a suspension bridge between Sicily and mainland Italy, made available by Webuild Multimedia Library - Copyright AFP/File ...

For decades, even centuries, Sicily was known as a source of rustic, inexpensive red wines, typically sold in bulk for bottling as simple table wine. But beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ...

Beneath the thunder of Allied guns and banners of liberation, a hidden war began — one waged not on the battlefield but against unarmed civilians. Mothers were torn from their children, daughters ...