The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made an impassioned plea for European and transatlantic unity in a speech marking the ...

Napoleon proved to be a capable military commander from a young age. From his actions during the Siege of Toulon to his ...

Germany had surrendered, and World War Two was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for the vanquished Germans, it marked the end of bombings and of Nazi rule.