How did Napoleon, outnumbered 4 to 1, manage to launch one of the most daring campaigns in military history after his crushing defeat at Leipzig? Despite his brilliant victories, his hopes to fracture ...

France’s president has paid homage to former French Resistance activist and author Geneviève Callerot, who has died aged 108.

The French photographer Raoul Minot took clandestine photos of Nazi-occupied Paris. Now, his images serve as a reminder of ...

Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the world’s oldest 3D ...

BBC News reports that the site of Cooden Camp, a World War I training camp that opened in 1914, is being investigated ahead ...

According to a statement released by the University of Adelaide, a possible 3-D map has been identified in the Ségognole 3 ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...

Despite being overshadowed by WW2, a few WW1 games like Verdun & Valiant Hearts capture the horrors & sacrifices of the war. Innovative WW1 titles like Ad Infinitum & The Great War: Western Front ...

He tried to enlist in the AIF but was rejected as too short. Eventually accepted in Western Australia in September 1916, he reached France a year later. Woods displayed great bravery in one of his ...

The Ukraine-Russia war that began in February 2022 led to a series of conflicts for various reasons in different parts of the world, including Israel, Gaza, Syria, Sudan and Myanmar, taking a huge ...