Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

As the horrors of Auschwitz unfolded around them, two 20-somethings found love, lost one another then reunited decades later – leading to one of the most remarkable escapes of WWII ...

We rank the essential movies of the Oscar-nominated actress Greta Garbo, including Grand Hotel, Camille, and Flesh and the ...

The King and the Royal family have gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as they watched a VE Day flypast. Charles and ...

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Antiques America isn’t just another dusty junk shop along Interstate 35—it’s a time machine disguised as a rustic mall, where every corner holds the potential to reconnect you with your childhood or ...

The then British Guiana was a grievous victim of the first cold war. When the British Government suspended the Government of British Guiana in 1953, the US National Security Council met under the ...

Niewiadów’s plant in central Poland reflects the country’s manufacturing decline since the end of the cold war. Its 80-hectare site is dotted with abandoned testing ranges and derelict ...

Global military expenditure rose by 9.4% in 2024 to $2.7 trillion, the steepest yearly rise since the end of the Cold War, according to data compiled by the global security think tank Stockholm ...