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Canadian soldiers were among the most ruthless on the battlefield during World War I, especially when it came to facing the Germans.

The Vietnam War was arguably the most controversial conflict of the 20th century. One of the most contentious aspects of the war was the Phoenix Program, a US counterinsurgency effort that aimed to ...

The Great Purge, also known as the Great Terror, was Stalin’s way of dealing with political opposition. Brutal and without mercy, he instigated the greatest political repression campaign in the ...

Tupolev Tu-95, 1983. (Photo Credit: CORBIS / Getty Images) In 1950, just five years after the conclusion of the Second World War, a request was issued to Soviet aircraft manufacturers for a new bomber ...

Fact and fiction are blended seamlessly in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), which can sometimes make it hard to determine what really happened and what was embellished. While the majority ...

Edward Zwick’s film Glory is one of the best-known screen depictions of the American Civil War. It is the story of the 54 th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first African-American units, from its ...

Mark Barnes shares exclusive images of the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum’s Panther Ausf A. The meticulous restoration carried out by Axis Track Services is underlined by the fascinating images ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as drones, are most often associated with airstrikes in modern warfare, but their history goes much further back than that. While drones came into the ...

In 1345, the city of Caffa was razed by a vicious pandemic, in what would, centuries later, be recognized as the first use of biological warfare in history. After successfully repelling the first ...

To get messages to the French Resistance, the BBC would broadcast coded messages, which were intended to go over the Germans' heads.

Everyone knows the word “Nazi” and the evil it entails. World War II is a huge part of our history, with Hitler’s Nazi Germany being remembered as the villains. As such, it is not surprising that the ...