Hanns Scharff is often referred to as Nazi Germany's 'Master Interrogator'. And for good reason: he was one of the most successful interrogators during the Second World War. Yet his technique was ...

One of the most bitter political debates in U.S. history produced one of the United States’ greatest foreign policy ...

Oil prices are still rising amid fears that Iran may be laying mines in the Straits of Hormuz. The initial market confidence that the US would speedily bring this war to a happy conclusion has all but ...

After more than 100 years, an American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War. The Department of National Defence would not say what ...

The U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday that U.S. forces had begun using the British base for “specific defensive operations." ...

The former wartime Conservative Prime Minister made a number of concessions with Nazi Germany, including the 1938 Munich Agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.

However, when the war was declared against Germany on September 3, 1939, this was replaced by the National Service (Armed ...

Explore the history of WWI and WWII from the spark of the Archduke's assassination to the global shift of the Cold War. Discover the major alliances, key battles and how these conflicts led to the ...

The US and Israel have launched attacks on Iran, with the Islamic Republic reportedly striking back. As the conflict spills ...

Publication of an intercepted cable exposed a clumsy German effort to forge an alliance with Mexico and helped propel the United States into the Great War.

As the conflict spills over into the wider region, and WW3 fears grow, we have taken a look at what refusing conscription would look like for Scots.

Individuals who declined to serve were labelled conscientious objectors (COs), and during the First World War, they faced the ...