On January 1, 1945, the skies over Western Europe erupted in one of the most intense air battles of World War II. The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Boden Plata, a high-risk attack against ...

The tendency to pitch up violently, or enter an uncontrollable dive at the stall led to pilots flying the approach into ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...

“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted ...

Excavations at the mass grave site of civilians killed by Nazi invaders in 1941 near the village of Baranovo (Polotsk District) have ...

Those sentenced to be hanged were: Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm von Keitel, Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred ...

Today, countries are unwilling to extradite their leaders to international courts and many prefer to settle the scores on ...

The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout World War 2. The term “Panzer” refers to a series of ...

April 1945 — while Nazi Germany was collapsing on every front, one last offensive erupted in the most unexpected place:[...] ...

Justin Bronk is the Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at RUSI, and the Editor of the RUSI Defence Systems online journal. His particular areas of ...

After the Fire is a coming of age story set during a time of war, which takes place during the Barrow Blitz. Two siblings, ...