Of the 20 Victoria Crosses awarded for gallantry in Italy, six were awarded to Indians. They were Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (posthumous), Sepoys Namdeo Jadav, Kamal Ram and Ali Haidar; and riflemen Sher ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

Those asking how to counter the far right might look at the communities in Italy where partisan resistance was strong.

Breaching The Gothic Line in 1944 would test the allies, especially the Americans as they tried to push north to the Po River ...