In 1938, Stalin has his military leadership purged, and has thousands of his comrades killed or locked up. The reasons as to ...

Bouverie may have written the best single volume overview of the diplomatic wrangling among the Great Powers during World War II.

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

Built to outgun the Tiger and Panther, the Soviet IS-2 entered service in 1944 with thick sloped armor and a 122 mm gun that ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

FROM being ravaged by bloody World War I to being carved up by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, Poland endured the ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could ...

Jochen Hellbeck replies to a critic.

Lyudmila PavlichenkoTo read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to ...

The Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. It transformed the momentum of the war, shifting the balance of power from Nazi ...

The industrial town of Victoria was once home to the pride of Nicolae Ceausescu's heavy industry, now the factory stands ...