On the night of June 12, 1940, Britain’s newly formed Hadock Force prepared to launch its first bombing raid on Italy, only ...

An army veteran who spent five years in a German prison camp during World War Two has been laid to rest. Eric Reeves, from ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the ...

Despite its defeat in Syria in 2019, IS' sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq, where the extremists ...

Fort de La Mauresque (Moor's Fort), north of Port-Vendres. Originally a French military position where a coastal battery was ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

France’s sudden defeat at the start of World War II shocked the world. This video explains how German planning, French ...

In France during World War II, German alcohol shipments helped to provide crucial intelligence for the Allies.

List of release dates for new movies and TV streaming in January 2026 on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV, & Peacock.

Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and ...

Fergal Keane has met thousands of traumatised children while reporting on conflicts. Here, he researches the long-term effect ...

Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia ...