Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for ...

Essentially, the Danzig Crisis was an incident between Poland and the Free City of Danzig (today known as Gdańsk). The Polish government believed it had the right to both station warships across ...

Lynne Olson’s book ‘The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’ reveals the unsung stories of female French resistance fighters.

Germany will station 5,000 troops in Lithuania by 2027, marking its first permanent foreign deployment since WWII. The ...

In Gdańsk, Poland, two boys discovered a 1959 love letter in a bottle on Stogi Beach, penned by a woman named Rysia to her ...

In Life is Beautiful, starting out with Guido and Giosuè being taken to the concentration camps, we’re introduced to our lead ...

Nobody doubts the difficulty of counting the dead in war. Hence the omnipresent tomb for The Unknown Soldier which ...

The “Shoes on the Danube Promenade,” pictured here, is a memorial to the Hungarian Jews who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were ...

As our president seeks resolution of the Ukrainian struggle, it cannot end in a forced Ukrainian capitulation.

Explore every real-world historical reference in Andor, from Stalin’s heist to post-truth politics. A deep, chronological ...

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.

When it comes to historical fiction books about war, the options are endless. Whether you want to read about The Civil War, ...