Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part ...

The June 6 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

Roland “Roly” Lalonde enlisted in the army in 1942 as a 19-year-old clerk typist, signing up out of a sense of duty to Canada ...

Last year we celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the monumental military effort by the U.S. and its allies on June 6, ...

From crumbling fortresses and mountain battlefields to rusty gun emplacements and skeletal ships, there are ghostly reminders ...

Mari State University (MarSU) proudly hosted an enlightening lecture recently by its Rector, Prof. Mikhail Shvetsov N, ...

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The remarkable find was made by a pair of Magna Carta sleuth-scholars from Britain. The document, on sheepskin parchment, was purchased by Harvard in the aftermath of World War II from a London ...

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The sons of two World War Two soldiers who survived recapture after the legendary Great Escape are to cycle the 120-mile distance their fathers were forced to march. Stuart Green and Roger Churchill ...

British clergymen and newspapers commented last week on certain possibly metaphysical aspects of World War II: Since the beginning of the war, Great Britain has observed two national Days of Prayer.