We examine what caused the world to stand on the brink of total war in just two decades after the War to End All Wars. Events ...

World War II veteran Irv Locker, one of the last surviving soldiers of the D-Day invasion, marked his 101st birthday this ...

Japan’s invasion of China in World War II began with the expansion of conflict after years of tension. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Japanese forces launched a full-scale war, ...

If history were about repeats, which it is not, not exactly, but still, today’s America would best be seen in light of what ...

Poland's leaders stressed the need for a strong defense in the face of war in neighboring Ukraine and redress as they led solemn ceremonies early Sunday to mark the 85th anniversary of German Nazi ...

Bouverie may have written the best single volume overview of the diplomatic wrangling among the Great Powers during World War II.

The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War ...

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far ...

People in Poland are set to take part in the ‘largest military readiness drive’ in its history since World War Two.