SCHIAVON, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV’ s choice of name signals a commitment to social justice which is very much in line with ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

President Trump wants to make May 8, or Victory in Europe Day, into a national holiday. NPR’s Joe Henandez spoke to veteran Harry Miller on his memories of the day Nazi Germany surrendered in World ...

In “38 Londres Street”, a gripping new book, Philippe Sands shows that the long-rumoured connection between the men was real.

As Europe celebrated the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, the Greek island of Symi witnessed the German surrender in the ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross ...

Luciano “Louis” Graziano led Nazi officers to Eisenhower after they signed the surrender. Now 102, he recalls what came next.

A soldier's remarkable war story, from the evacuation of Dunkirk to his escape from a prisoner of war camp and time with the ...

Switzerland developed this defensive plan as a deterrent: any attempt to invade the country would have been extremely costly ...

“ Vermiglio ” will soon be streaming stateside. Maura Delpero’s Italian epic is set to debut on the Criterion Channel May 20, ...

With fears of a new world war ascendant, the lessons of World War II continue to resonate, though there is less agreement ...