GERMANY Seven Years War?The square-rigged, ruddy-cheeked, sea-trading folk of one of the quaintest old towns in Europe last week dropped their placid and peculiar tasks—such as adding tiny ...

Discover how Prussia decisively defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, a short but pivotal conflict that reshaped European power and led to the unification of Germany. This concise breakdown ...

Less than 18 hours after Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, plunging nearly 300,000,000 persons of nations around the globe into war, Hitler's forces apparently had struck the first ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago.