A German Army officer activated a bomb disguised as two bottles of Cointreau orange liqueur, handed the package to an ...

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As Soviet forces closed in on Berlin in April 1945, Adolf Hitler remained hidden inside the Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery while the city was reduced to ruins around him. A blurry ...

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The mystery of the where the Amber Room went has persisted for decades. The Amber Room, a 600-square-foot masterpiece with ...

The German writer’s postwar works were ruthless in their condemnation of a country that, in its inability to reckon with ...

David Holloway, a Stanford University-based but Dublin-born historian of the nuclear age, is more cautious about how ...

Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler's food taster. Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent 2½ years as one of 15 young women who ...

Intercepting bombers at night was a desperate and demanding mission. For the night fighter pilot the stakes were extremely ...

The politics, geopolitics, tactics, operational parameters, strategies, means and ethos of the nuclear age are now all changing at an unprecedented rate. This highly instructive book provides a very ...