Eastern Front, take the fight to the Eastern theater of the second World War and battle over the expansive steppe, from the streets of the smallest rural villages to the ruins of the largest ...

While better-known bombers grabbed the headlines, the Soviet Tu-2 played a vital but often overlooked role in the outcome of World War II. Fast, versatile, and deadly, it was a game-changer on the ...

The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between ... Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France ...

Under this umbrella, the Spanish volunteers of the 250th Infantry Division served on the northern or Volkov front. Both the Germans and Franco ... about the Spanish Blue Division experience in World ...

On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany formally surrendered, ending World War II in Europe ... the Allies on what we in the West call the Eastern Front. These ethnic minorities were at first deployed ...

Noted naval historian Craig Symonds has given us a short, comprehensive global history of World War II ... account of the war at sea, and its fundamental effect on the global war. The importance of ...