Britain hired close to 30,000 German soldiers, many from the principality of Hesse-Cassel, to augment its forces in America. Infantry troops and elite fusilier units participated in almost every ...

True movie-set war stories from Paul Biddiss, the British Army soldier who's lent his expertise to Gladiator II, Mission: ...

Those were the words of just one desperate German soldier in a letter to his family amidst impending defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in early 1943. His letter is one of dozens that have been ...

A team of researchers found the remains of the “Well-man” from an 800-year-old Norse saga and used ancient DNA analysis to reconstruct who he was.

I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely ...

Stories spread of the massacre of Soldiers and civilians at Malmedy and Stavelot, of paratroopers dropping behind the lines, and of English-speaking German soldiers, disguised as Americans ...

Newcomer Felix Kammerer plays Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who eagerly signs up ... humor within the horrors of war. —I.G. This medieval war drama transports us back to the early 1300s ...

Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack ... in an astonishing labyrinth, a medieval quarry that stretches for ...

But Jacob and Wilhelm’s fraternal labors on mythology, medieval literature, legends and a German dictionary are largely ...

Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a savvy French curator who had been working for the resistance Sonja Anderson The fragile ...

(Angi Betran/Army) If a collection of soldiers and scientists are successful, troops may never again have to run, on foot, into a breach, swinging a grappling hook in a scene resembling medieval ...

“This is especially important in the Haifa military cemetery, where fallen Jewish soldiers are also buried,” the Ministry added, citing a ruling by the IDF Chief Rabbi that states the holiness ...