The Suomi KP/-31 was one of the lesser-known and yet most influential submachine guns of the Second World War. It was the ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

Tiger 231 was an impenetrable war machine from World War II that stood on the battlefield with multiple system failures and managed to retreat 37 miles on its own power. The story is as much about the ...

One of Russia's most celebrated spies has died at the age of 103. Russian state media are remembering him as the man who, during World War II, stopped the Nazis from destroying the Polish city of ...

The P-39 Airacobra may be the least loved American fighter plane of World War II, deemed inadequate by military planners at the outset of hostilities and written off as nearly useless by many ...

Tanks were first invented in World War I, where they were envisioned as invincible land ships that could break the stalemate of trench warfare and lead to victory. Technological shortcomings meant ...

One good turn, the saying goes, deserves another. The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

SOFIA -- It's hard to miss the giant, 11-meter-tall statue that towers above Plovdiv, standing proud on top of the Bulgarian city's second-highest hill. Named Alyosha, a generic diminutive used to ...