Tsar Alexander II of Russia stood at the crossroads of history—after all, his reign paved the way to the fall of the Romanov empire. And when you look at his scandalous life, it’s no wonder why it ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou wants to scrap two public holidays to put France's finances back on track. It's a brave ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The measure most likely to rankle the French was a proposal to scrap two national holidays: Easter Monday and May 8, which ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou proposed scrapping two public holidays and freezing most public spending as part of a ...

Following the Allies' invasion of Normandy and the subsequent expulsion of German forces from France and Belgium in the summer and fall of 1944, Hitler devised an all-out offensive to retake the ...

Inside the uneasy, incongruous coalition of the Big Three A new book traces the wartime relationship between Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin ...