Originally designed to defend Soviet skies from American bombers and spy planes, the MiG-31 combined brute speed, long-range ...

One of the most famous Tiger battles took place on July 8th 1943 during the Battle of Kursk when supposedly a lone Tiger ...

James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

For years, ever since the footage appeared in TV documentaries and online, the identity and fate of the so-called 'Lost ...

In January 1945 the end of the Second World War looked hopeful, but was by no means guaranteed as the Nazis continued to ...

From the Magna Carta to World War II, which ended 80 years ago, the history of the continent has been a succession of ...

In our age of cosmetic fantasy, a dramatic love story between two bespectacled art historians sounds implausible. But add in ...

The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.

Belsen was never a murder camp like Auschwitz, but it became one of the most infamous sites of the Holocaust because the ...

Express rejoices to announce the death of Hitler, proclaimed our page one of May 2, 1945. Peter Caddick-Adams examines the ...

Winnipeg has a tradition of joyously celebrating the end of Canada’s wars and jubilantly greeting its returning soldiers. In 1885, when the 90th Winnipeg Battalion — later known as the Royal ...

On the morning of Monday, May 7, 1945, a young clerk from Grays, Essex, left home with an unusual goodbye to her family: 'See ...