Why do some of the most advanced military technologies struggle in dense jungle terrain? This documentary explores the Burma Campaign of 1944, Orde Wingate's Chindits, and the enduring principles of ...

A memorial has been unveiled to commemorate a Czech pilot who was killed off the coast of Devon during World War Two. Wing Commander Alois Vasatko's body was never recovered after his Spitfire ...

Armed conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted in early 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The previous year, protests in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s ...

Following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, mujahideen fighters waged a guerrilla campaign against Soviet forces and the puppet leader they installed. The war cost the Soviet Union ...

Detailed exhibits at the National Museum of World War II Aviation trace the development of aviation as well as the role it played before and during World War II, with a particular focus on American ...

The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1944, as the battles of the Second World War raged in Europe and the Pacific, delegates from forty-four nations met at the ...

August: The Russians and the Germans sign a non-aggression pact. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree not to invade each other's borders. The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other parts ...

Concerns of Palestinian economic crisis grow as Israeli banks prepare to cut ties Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching ...