On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

She turned to gymnastics after surviving World War II as a persecuted Jew and won 10 Olympic medals competing against far younger athletes. By Richard Goldstein Growing up in a Jewish family in ...

He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the ...

After World War Two started in September 1939, the Nazis initially moved east, invading Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union. This brought millions of Jewish people under their control. The Nazis ...

On May 11, 1940, the Third Reich invaded the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which had declared itself a neutral country. By 1942, ...

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On the year’s shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy’s pious mother christened him ...

Watch this video to find out how alliances and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak of World War One. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand ...

On a Kyiv rooftop in late November, a small group of volunteers in mismatched fatigues keep anxious watch. By day, all are judges in Ukraine’s highest courts, but once a fortnight they come ...

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