Filip Kovacevic chronicles a previously unpublicized operation by the Soviet Lithuanian state security service targeting a Jesuit priest in Berlin and his contacts in Lithuania between 1945 and 1954.

Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United ...

“Reagan saw the Soviet threat as existential ... the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II,” (Statement by President George W. Bush on Ukraine).

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, belonging to Norway, is famous for being home to the Global Seed Vault and for having ...

In yesterday’s newsletter, Bill quoted Philip Larkin’s “Homage to a Government,” on Britain’s quiet post-WWII retrenchment: ...

The explosive device probably struck a growing, then young tree during the fighting in World War II more than 80 years ago, and got lodged in it, but did not go off. Over the past eight decades, the ...

Marshall was early to perceive that the Soviet Union was far weaker than understood, and he spotted the percolating threat from China while the U.S. was still focused on fighting in the Middle East.

The combination of speed, range, and armament made the P-51 Mustang one of the most versatile platforms of the Second World ...