At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent. The Great War — the “war to end all wars” — was over. But peace, it turned out, was not secured by the armistice signed in a ...

The ultimate betrayal of World War II is laid bare: Stalin’s invasion of Poland to claim his share of the secret Nazi-Soviet pact. Witness the chilling military parade in Brest-Litovsk where German ...

The unedited truth of the German defeat in Poland is exposed in this raw 1943 Soviet interrogation. Polish diplomats were arrested and resistance fighters were brutally silenced after Stalin’s forces ...

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we must never forget those responsible for igniting that supreme example of human aggression and suffering. Conventional ...

On this day, September 1, 1939, World War II began with the German invasion of Poland, under the Ribbentrop-Mólotov Pact between Germany and the USSR. At the height of attempts to manipulate what was ...

This is a worthy sequel to the author's biography of Hindenburg -- "Wooden Titan." It is particularly timely in view of Nazi Germany's alleged designs for eastward expansion much along the lines laid ...

Russia and the US just held talks on ending the war in Ukraine — without Kyiv. Eastern European history shows it isn't rare for major powers to decide the fate of smaller states. "We didn't just ...

SYRIZA’s leadership claims that the putative dilemma between war and peace, or between exiting austerity and staying in the Euro, is not exhaustive. The third possibility is neither war nor peace. The ...

Brest-Litovsk, 22 January 1918 - Germany and Ukraine have reached an agreement that will bring the war between them to an end. The news is carried in a German telegram from Brest-Litovsk which has ...

If I had the Ural Mountains, if we possessed Siberia, if we had the Ukraine, then Nazi Germany would be swimming in prosperity. So said Adolf Hitler at Nürnberg in 1936. Last week Führer Hitler, after ...