In the final brutal months of World War II, Waffen SS divisions like Nordland, Charlemagne, and Totenkopf faced overwhelming ...

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago ...

Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years ...

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine became a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first ...

Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

These small units of scouts would infiltrate behind enemy lines, often in pretty inhospitable areas like forests, swamps and the rugged steppes of the Soviet Union. They would report on the strength ...

A host of memorial events are scheduled to take place on Wednesday as Poland marks 86 years since the Soviet Union invaded the country in the opening phase of World War II. Soviet troops invading ...

Tanks, with their thick armor and powerful guns, were essential for breaking through defenses, but conventional methods of airlifting them—such as disassembly and reassembly on the ground—were ...