This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...
In this episode, we follow two of World War II’s most famous machines - the American M4 Sherman and the Soviet T-34 - as they outlive the conflict that made them legends and reappear in wars that ...
Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...
Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...
Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.
Some stories circulate around WWII reenacting that have little to do with what actually happens on the ground. In this brief piece, we step through five of the most persistent misconceptions and ...
War Secretary Pete Hegseth tore into the Pentagon’s entrenched acquisition bureaucracy in a fiery address Friday, comparing the department’s planning culture to Soviet-style central planning that he ...
About 350 people attended the Hainesville Civil War Encampment and Battle on Saturday, where they were exposed to everything from field surgical units to the singing master for morale as they immersed ...
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the revival of its violent, anti-democratic ways. “When I walk down the street ...
Midway Village Museum will host World War II Days Sept. 27-28. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 27 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at the museum campus, 6799 Guilford Road, ...
BRUSHING UP ON OUR LOCAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORY TONIGHT. THE FIRST BATTLE OF CEDAR SPRINGS TOOK PLACE BACK IN 1780, RIGHT IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. AND TODAY, RE-ENACTORS RETURN TO THE BATTLEFIELD.