Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942. Ward-Harvey, a ­combat engineer or “sapper” with the 2/7th Field Company, ...

I spent two nights in Levanto and explored Cinque Terre by train and boat. I visited Vernazza, Manarola, and Riomaggiore, while skipping Monterosso and Corniglia. Starting from Levanto, I rode the ...

From 75mm guns on B-25s to Italy’s one-off 102mm monster, WW2 saw aircraft packed with weapons designed for tanks and ...

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

An Italian army tank accidentally blew up a chicken farm near Pordenone during a military exercise. According to Euronews, Telegraph reports, the tank was taking part in nighttime military exercises ...