What were the main reasons for Germany’s defeat in the Second World War?
The biggest theater of World War II, the Eastern Front was full of challenges that hampered the German war effort and ultimately led to Soviet victory.
Overshadowed by the Normandy landings, Operation Dragoon was the first time substantial French forces engaged in combat on their home soil since 1940.
Russian serfdom bound millions to the land, while its collapse transformed Russia’s economy and state.
Hunger strikes, used by Irish Republican prisoners to press their demands during the Troubles, are a controversial method of political protest.
Resisting the Germans in 1940, the British didn’t just have flak guns and the RAF… they had their unique sense of humor.
The Crimean Tatars were one of several ethnic groups deported from their homeland by the Soviet authorities for alleged disloyalty during the Second World War.
French philosopher Voltaire famously roasted the Holy Roman Empire as neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
