The five years after World War One were a period of turmoil and instability for Germany: Germany had lost World War One and was severely punished by the terms of the Treaty of ...
In his poem, “September 1, 1939,” first published in The New Republic, W.H. Auden wrote about sitting in a dive bar in midtown Manhattan as the world hurtled toward war: “Defenceless under ...
The members of the 65th were among more than 1.3 million who passed through Camp Shanks on their way to fight in Europe in ...
World War One ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918. This became known as Armistice Day - the day Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace) which caused the fighting to stop. People in ...
On Sept. 30, 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy, under the ...
Sofia Malina and Polina Muzhychkova met in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but were separated after it came under brutal ...
Britain went to war with Hitler's Germany on 3 1939. In History revisits people's recollections of that day and looks at the ...