The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine became one of the most fear-inducing components of the German military ...

Life aboard a German U-boat in World War II was brutal, claustrophobic, and deadly. Follow Hans Fischer, a young mechanic turned U-boat crewman, as he endures stifling heat, toxic diesel fumes, no ...

The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...

One of the longest surviving World War Two veterans in Guernsey has died at the age of 104. John Barnes was born in London ...

On 9 April 1940, the day that Denmark fell to the Nazi war machine, the Danish envoy to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, books by Hastings, Moorhouse, Clavin, and Passmore shed new light on the conflict.

There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...

The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black ...

The Christmas photos of the Chinese civilian-looking cargo ship that appears to be weaponized are real. It's sitting exactly ...

There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...