On March 18, 1945 22-year old Army Captain and Troy native Bill Chapman, Jr was the pilot of a B-24 bomber that was shot down ...

As historians James Holland and Al Murray chronicle in their finely detailed book “Victory ’45,” it took a lot to end the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...

This Berlin documentary shows in impressive flashbacks to the postwar period and with film footage from the 1990s the transformation of the city of Berlin after 1945 and after German reunification ...

The fight has also been distorted by the actions of left-wing and left-leaning media outlets that applied a magnifying glass to Israel’s every move while blindly accepting casualty figures from the ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

During World War II, tyranny and destruction swept over continents, and the very foundations of our freedom stood in peril.