The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the ...

The first batch of 230 so-called “volunteers” arrived in China by the end of October and formed the Soviet Volunteer Group. They were sent into battle almost immediately, wearing Chinese uniforms ...

Then-President Abraham Lincoln was sent a list of the potential executions and sent back a list of 39 to die (later amended to 38). All 38 of these men were hanged. It would later be revealed that two ...

Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army officer during World War II, was a silent hero ... he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in the Soviet Union. Szpilman attempted to rescue him from captivity ...

But, in a remarkable turnaround since World War II, Moscow has transformed a relatively ... Like most high-ranking Soviet officers, he is withdrawn even from his personal staff, spent most of ...

Thousands of individuals—many of whom wore far-right insignia and Nazi uniforms—participated in a 'memorial hike' from Buda ...

In 1983, a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down Korean Air Lines Flight ... The ANZUS treaty was established after World War II as a mutual defence pact between the US, Australia and New Zealand. But US ...

There are decades when weeks happen and weeks when decades happen, goes an aphorism misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. The ...

Dan Kennerly stripped out of his mud-caked uniform and took a dip in the icy lake. An officer told him to get ... related to the group’s World War II adventures. Jointly administered by the ...

The result was a drastically weakened Soviet military and disastrous failures early in WWII. Some, like Marshal Kirill Meretskov, were arrested only to be released and placed back in command when the ...

To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...