THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

A natural fighter ace, Ivan Kozhedub’s tactics were characterized by precision, aggression, and calculated risk.

Designed to dwarf all previous helicopters, the Mi-32 would have been the world’s largest rotorcraft. With three rotors and ...

The German military could expect no mercy after the horrific cruelty they had inflicted on Soviet soldiers and civilians. But the Red Army were equally ruthless in their treatment of German women ...

With the suppression of the abortive uprising, Remnev was arrested on 5th July and held in the Kresty prison, in the same block as Trotsky (not actually a member of the Bolsheviks at this time), and ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Hans Ulrich Rudel was one of the most famous WW2 pilots. He joined the Luftwaffe already in 1936, he mostly flew the iconic ...

Conservative Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s weekend presidential runoff has set the country on a more nationalist ...

These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Hitler’s Germany and the ...

The US military historian David Glantz, a leading Western Red Army scholar, has estimated that had the West not helped the Soviet Union it still would have won, but the war would have lasted 18-24 ...

Conservative Karol Nawrocki's victory in Poland's weekend presidential runoff has set the country on a more nationalist ...