The CIA mounted an ambitious tunnel-digging operation in 1954 to tap into Russian communications lines beneath Berlin.   More »

British interests in Europe clashed with American strategy in WWII. How the clash influenced the making of the Iron Curtain is debated to this day.   More »

The Red Army’s T-34 battle tank helped upset Hitler’s designs for conquest on the Eastern Front.   More »

The lull in the fighting on the Western Front in 1940 came to be known as the Phony War.   More »

The Nazi Foreign Legion included soldiers of numerous nationalities who fought for numerous different reasons.   More »

With Sultan Mohammed II’s Turkish horde at the gates of Rhodes, the city’s Knights Hospitallers prepared an unholy welcome for the Ottoman siege.   More »

German General Reinhard Gehlen set up an anti-Soviet espionage ring in 1945 and used it to the grief of both sides during the Cold War.   More »

America, Auschwitz, and the Holocaust: Could more have been done to save lives during Hitler’s Final Solution?   More »

Retreating Germans turned on their Soviet pursuers at the Battle of Targul Frumos, inflicting heavy losses on Red Army tanks, buying valuable time.   More »

Female Spies like Virginia Hall, Amy Thorpe and Barbara Lauwers were large supporters of Allied war efforts, and some of the most important women in World War 2.   More »