Hitler's betrayal of his ally cost the lives of 29 million Russians... but the Eastern Front broke Germany's armies and ...

When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...

Türkiye, Azerbaijan and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) are "one nation, three states," where the special ...

As Western alliances unravel, Europe is entering an era that seems distant from what VE Day represented, the BBC's Katya ...

EXCLUSIVE: The retired US Lieutenant General believes aspirations for a quick-fix resolution to the war via a grand deal ...

FBI agent Richard Miller acknowledged his secret dealings with the Soviets, but claimed he did so to infiltrate Soviet ...

Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades. In that era ...

CLAW MARKS on trees in Northumberland are said to bear witness to the presence of one of the North-East’s most remarkable wartime residents.

We examine Lenin Peak's first ascents and two expeditions that ended in tragedy, including the deadliest-ever mountaineering ...

The name of Belarusian Aleksei Vashchenko, who closed the embrasure of an enemy bunker with his body and thus entered the history of the city’s defence, was also mentioned. One of the streets of ...

A budget blueprint released on Friday advances, in hard numbers and biting words, President Trump’s assault on the nation’s ...