IT WAS QUITE the 100th birthday party for World War II veteran George Mullins. Hundreds of family members and friends turned ...

Publishers are racing to churn out more historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters.

In an area forged by wind and silence, a herd of horses run freely across the gravel plains near Garub. These are the wild horses of the Namib Desert, feral, tenacious, and uniquely adapted. They are ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany to rally his country round the Ukraine offensive at a grand military parade in Moscow in front of ...

In his remarks, the President made clear that after two lost world wars, German imperialism is planning nothing less than a ...

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

Victory in Europe day — when Nazi Germany surrendered after being beaten by the Allied Forces. But 80 years after ...

Through assiduous research and well-paced narrative, Simon Parkin has given us an extraordinary, little-known story from World War II: the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. Its subjects ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Walter Isaacson about the world America made after World War II. Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First ...

A special court in Germany is still going after Nazi criminals more than 80 years after the end of the Second World War ...

The German War Graves Commission works to exhume and rebury the dead with dignity — regardless of the army they served.