As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

If history has taught us anything, it's that the atrocities of war never go down as civilization goes up. Advancements in industrialization and technology have enhanced our lives of leisure at home, ...

The University of North Dakota holds one of the most complete collections of records from the Nuremberg trials, the 13 trials held to prosecute those accused of carrying out the ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

The Pershing arrived in Europe in 1945 just in time to face Panthers and Tigers. Delays from politics, doctrine, and prototype setbacks meant this heavy tank arrived late, but its combat debut proved ...

When Canadians felt under threat of invasion during the Second World War, ordinary citizens mobilized to protect the home front, creating a civil defence corps of almost 280,000 people. Training after ...

Watch the trailer for 'Amrum,' a drama set in the waning days of World War 2, directed by Fatih Akin and starring Diane Kruger.

The war against Iran unleashed by the United States and Israel two weeks ago brings to the boil the clash of civilisations ...

The liberation of Bergen-­Belsen concentration camp by British forces on April 15, 1945 was portrayed in the media of the time as the jewel in the crown of British victory over Nazi Germany. Arriving ...

Barry Eichengreen explains why a book published in 1945, and all but ignored at the time, is redefining how we understand ...

What if? President Trump’s decision to take out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei produced global headlines. Like this one from TIME ...

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...