In 1944, the US Navy launched an unprecedented operation to seize an enemy submarine intact. After forcing U 505 to surface, ...

Allied intelligence uncovered a German plan to extract captured U boat commanders from a Canadian POW camp. Instead of ...

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There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...

The White House invitation comes after months of sanctions and escalating tensions over drugs and U.S. operations in ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, books by Hastings, Moorhouse, Clavin, and Passmore shed new light on the conflict.

European political and military leaders are ushering in 2026 with bellicose speeches that recall 1914, greeting the prospect ...

Roland “Bud” Wolfe’s yen to fly hot airplanes for the British against Nazi Germany before the U.S. declared war landed him in an Irish jail — twice — making him the only American held in what was one ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...