If you are the captain of an aircraft carrier, these are the words you do not want to hear: “Enemy battleship in sight!” Not that the Glorious was ever a lucky ship. Built in late 1916 as a ...

AFTER six months of war the riddle is still the same: Can the Allies defeat Nazi Germany by their blockade, or can she become self-supporting in safety behind the Siegfried Line? Strategists and ...

2007-03-17T12:00:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/17a/196223-m.jpgJorg Friedrich talked about his book, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945, published ...

When you look at World World 2, its deadly conflicts happened in part as a result of huge militaries mobilizing against one another. The 1940s were undoubtedly influenced by the fighting of WW2, as ...

Some American commentators began to wonder what America would do to prepare for war. Others, remembering the horrors of the "war to end all wars" they had fought in Europe a little over two decades ...

BERLIN, June 14, 1940 (UP) - Germany, with her troops clattering down the Champs Elysee in Paris and smashing ahead on all French fronts, asserted tonight that the total military collapse of France is ...

In Germany in the 1940s, a variety of projects was launched to develop technical applications for the nuclear fission of uranium. Historical uranium samples from Germany have now undergone forensic ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Acknowledging these factors isn’t to diminish the heroism of the RAF pilots who defended the United Kingdom. Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more ...