As German forces encircled the city and artillery began its relentless assault, Leningrad’s people faced starvation, terror, and fire from the skies. Hitler’s plan was clear—starve the city into ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

Maria Smorževskihh-Smirnova of the Narva Museum has been targeted over a poster featuring a composite image of the two men ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...

Operation Sea Lion was Nazi Germany’s ambitious but ultimately aborted plan to invade and conquer Britain during World War II ...

“A chain of newspapers owned by Sir Keith Murdoch, father of latter-year media magnate Rupert Murdoch, earned a reputation ...

Night after night, the skies over Britain roared with fire and steel. The Blitz wasn’t just an air raid—it was a battle for ...

You’ve heard of the V1 and V2—but Hitler’s V3 “super gun” was the most ambitious (and terrifying) of them all. Designed to bombard London from over 100 miles away, this massive underground weapon was ...

As the war collapsed around them, Germany looked to suicide missions. The result: a cockpit-welded V-1 bomb piloted by ...

The Department of Homeland Security shared an X post with a Manifest Destiny painting that users said referenced Nazi ...

While German forces approached from the south, Finland closed in from the north—completing the noose around Leningrad. Driven ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...