By the end of May 1945, more enemy prisoners were sitting out the Second World War in Texas than any state in the Union. One out of every ten German, Italian and Japanese captives shipped to the ...

On a cold, gray day in early January 1945, a train rolled out of Lima laden, like many trains in the three years previous and ...

Vancouverites woke to shocking news: the iconic Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia had been sunk near Singapore.

There is even a figure of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the Nazi Afrika Korps in North Africa. He of the Battle of El Alamein infamy which he lost to the British, thus preventing the already ...

In his history, Long says that from October 26 "the Australians started their drive northwards and brought the whole weight of Rommel's Afrika Korps against them". One of Montgomery's intelligence ...

D-Day was a day like no other. Although every military operation has a D-day – when it begins, with the D confusingly standing for “day”, too – in the popular mind there is only one D-Day.

Then, early in 1941, Hitler sent Rommel to the desert, along with his ‘Afrika Korps’, and suddenly the campaign became a lot more difficult. The German tanks raced forward, pushing the allies ...

Rommel’s feint maneuver had worked. While his Italian allies were engaging the bulk of the British forces at the center of the Gazala Line, his Afrika Korps had successfully breached the south ...

These men, members of Erwin Rommel’s vaunted but humiliatingly defeated Afrika Korps, were among nearly 400,000 German POWs who were summarily shipped across the Atlantic, then dispersed to more ...

As the head of the German army's elite Afrika Korps, Rommel won fame and popularity for his military successes against the British in North Africa. Initially admired by Hitler, he was widely ...

The bulk of the Afrika-Korps was bottled up in Tunisia’s Cap Bon peninsula and Rommel had flown to Germany. On Sunday, 8 May, 1943, the German army prepared to surrender. This coincided with the ...