The UK is set to dazzle as it commemorates the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day this week. On Thursday, May 8, a date etched in history for marking the conclusion of World War Two's European ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

World War II produced some of the most consequential military leaders in modern history.