At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Before Tigers and Panthers roamed the frontlines, a humble, turretless machine quietly rewrote the rules of armored warfare. Born as an infantry support gun, the Sturmgeschütz III—or StuG—was never ...

The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...