After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine.

America's secret WWII Ghost Army who diverted Adolf Hitler and German troops away from attacking US units will receive congressional gold medal for saving 30,000 lives ...

You might expect a warplane to be pained in drab, neutral colors that fade into the background. But that's not what Germany did with its WW2 planes. Here's why.

Before he would lead the U.S. 3rd Army across western Europe, Gen. George Patton spent the first half of 1944 in charge of a somewhat different command. It was the First U.S. Army Group, or FUSAG ...

The stories of German soldiers who were based in Guernsey and died during World War Two have been documented in a book. Life Lives Beyond the Grave has been written by Simon Hamon, a retired ...

The stories of German soldiers who were based in Guernsey and died during World War Two have been documented in a book. Life Lives Beyond the Grave has been written by Simon Hamon, a retired ...

In fact the sons of the men who had stopped the German army in 1914 resisted bravely when they could but, in the face of this new kind of warfare, a dark fatalism – even defeatism – soon spread.

It has been described as “one of the most historic paradigm shifts in Germany’s post-war history”. Friedrich Merz, the incoming German chancellor, announced on Tuesday evening a €500 ...