WASHINGTON — The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a ...

When the last surviving soldiers of the First World War – British Tommies and French poilus alike – died a few years ago, national newspapers in London and Paris, but also in Canberra, Wellington and ...

The wreck of a German ship from World War I has been uncovered after a recent storm came through Cornwall, England, and unearthed it. Known as the SV Carl, the ship was seen for approximately one hour ...

Spanish-German actor Daniel Bruhl will act in and produce a new adaptation of the classic World War I novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front." (Willy Sanjuan/AP) Just one year after “All Quiet on the ...

Typically, when people think of submarine warfare, they probably recall the deadly U-boats of World War II. While that conflict saw widespread use of submarines, it was hardly the first to utilize the ...

A German-dominated Europe, but no World War II, no Holocaust, and very likely no Communism — not a bad trade-off for a German victory in WWI. In the early 20th century, the Allied powers, especially ...

Erich Kaestner, a soldier believed to have been Germany’s last World War I veteran, died Jan. 1 at a nursing home in Cologne at the age of 107, his son said Friday. When France’s next-to-last ...

A century-old wartime vessel has been identified off the coast of England. Wind farm developers were scanning the seabed off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk when their sonar detected an unusually ...

Current events are frequently viewed through the prism of analogies. Words become shorthand for a particular type of situation. “Munich” equals the danger of appeasing bloodthirsty dictators, “Vietnam ...

Some historians enjoy the intellectual exercise of engaging in counter-factual history, i.e., positing the opposite outcome of a particular historical even such as: England winning the American ...