Sometime earlier this spring, officials from the American Battle Monuments Commission had two plaques removed from the World ...

His 1998 epic war film, Saving Private Ryan, is set in 1944 in Normandy during the Second World War and follows a group of ...

The Saving Private Ryan star will present the series with more than 20 episodes exploring the origins and turning points of ...

Hanks also took centre stage in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies, set amidst the Cold War. The plot ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

Learn about the guns that have defined American history, shaped the United States' culture, and ultimately shape the issues ...

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This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

The main way in which the US intends to do so is to help “patriotic European parties”. No leader of such a party is more ...

There are dates when it is possible to pinpoint when the world changed: ...

Historians should strive to create and safeguard historical consensus, as the internet increasingly threatens this ideal.