On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied ...

Three US infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium, World War II, January 1945.Getty Images As Christmas approached in December 1944, many Americans believed World War ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

There is hardly anything more repulsive than when the German ruling class justifies its support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians by referring to the “fight against antisemitism” and its own ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

A Russian court Tuesday extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs, an action denounced by human rights activists as part of a ...

Saint Petersburg – A Russian court on Tuesday sent an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to jail for a third time as the Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...