On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers and about 1,000 tanks launched a surprise attack on ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

Lee Sassi, a World War II Army veteran, receives the French Legion of Honor. (Photo from Army.mil) Leggio “Lee” Sassi’s ...

There are historical first-person shooters that attempt to capture the precise texture of their era — the limits of the technology, the archaic military traditions, the hierarchy of command. Then ...

The Battle of Verdun cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers, and it inspired the first-person ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

Despite existing earlier and still being relevant in modern conflicts, trench warfare is synonymous with the First World War. This is also true of trench combat in video games, which, thankfully, ...

After 106 years buried underground, a WWI German buckle and ID tag are brought back to life. Watch the fascinating restoration process that transforms these war relics into preserved pieces of history ...

A farm labourer is toiling silently in the fields of northern France in the summer of 1944. It is just weeks after D-Day and all around him are German soldiers, using the farm in Normandy as their ...

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

Any enduring romanticism for war was obliterated by the industrialized brutality of World War I, from which legions of soldiers returned disfigured by facial injuries. Anna Coleman Ladd working on a ...