Some of the most famous mosaic murals in California, Disneyland and Disney World are the work of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, a ...

This May, the 80th anniversary of Germany’s surrender ending World War II was celebrated in Moscow with its customary gravity ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in ...

It features photographs, records, diaries, oral histories, film, posters, and other artifacts across the first, third, and fourth floors of the library.

Dad came back stateside on a hospital ship, which he referred as the ship of horrors, with hundreds of wounded men. The ...

The North Africa campaign took place primarily in the geographically strategic nations of Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.

On a quiet stretch of eastern Polish countryside in early September 1939, a battle unfolded that would be immortalized for its improbability: the Battle of Wizna. After Nazi Germany launched its ...

For years, some believed that China's victory in the War ... the World Anti-Fascist War. On the European front, the Soviet Union bore the brunt of Nazi Germany's military might, with the Eastern ...

The realities of World War II ... that half of this war is being fought around Ukraine.” At first, I was skeptical – was he exaggerating? But if we look carefully at the strategic plans of the warring ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... would hold on to British prisoners of war that the Red Army had liberated in Poland and eastern Germany. The Red Army also ...

Thursday marks 80 years since the Allied victory in Europe. The National World War II Museum estimates less than 1 percent of American servicemen who fought during that time are still alive today.

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War ... the front line in eastern ...