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How Stalingrad Became Hitler’s Greatest Defeat

This video explores the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most brutal and decisive confrontations of World War II. Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1943, the battle marked ...
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Battle of Hacksaw Ridge Explained in 1 Minute

In 1945, U.S. forces launched a brutal assault on Okinawa’s Maeda Escarpment—later known as Hacksaw Ridge. This video ...

Bloody letters and battlefield art: Russian museum's tribute to North Korean soldiers in Ukraine

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the ...
The Berkshire Eagle

A tavern, a raid, and a traitor, or, how the Berkshires captured Fort Ticonderoga and exposed Benedict Arnold

In May 1775, Pittsfield’s Col. James Easton and lawyer John Brown joined Ethan Allen to seize Fort Ticonderoga, marking ...

How Putin Stole a Nuclear Power Plant (And Got Away With It)

For Putin, the Zaporizhzhia plant serves as a valuable asset, one that can be traded to extract concessions from the West ...

‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions ...

“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 ...