The collapse of empires, the coercive imposition of peace treaties, and the humiliation embedded in diplomatic language have often laid the groundwork for global transformations that follow in silence ...

The Refugee Organisation, led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, expedited the return of 500,000 former prisoners of war ...

Putin's army is reportedly just one to two kilometres from Kupyansk, which was liberated in September 2022 by Ukrainian ...

Sébastien Bozon/AFP/A tiny capsule containing correspondence from World War 1 was uncovered in France. An elderly French ...

Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz ...

On the second day of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of Russia in June 1941, a glaring weakness in German weaponry was exposed. In Ukraine, General Mikhail Kirponos unleashed the formidable T ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

Sidney Cotton, the inspiration for James Bond, developed aerial reconnaissance equipment to photograph German positions ...