The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

My mom's older brother was 27 years old when killed in action on this day in 1945, in the final weeks of World War II ...

The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

AFP The largest bloc of far-right lawmakers elected to a German parliament since 1945 will take up their seats on Tuesday when a new Bundestag is ... The Alternative for Germany came second in the ...

Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes to ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...