Facing the obstacle of the Maginot Line, Hitler turned to oversized artillery to punch a path into France. The Karl-Gerät ...

Key Point: Not unlike many an expensive military project, the Maginot Line was not all it was advertised to be. According to the standard telling of the tale, the Maginot Line, the most expensive ...

Robert Frost was neither a military strategist nor policy wonk, but his poem “Mending Wall” captures the paradox of defensive walls. While walls are often built to defend against others, those same ...

May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...

The Karl-Gerät, literally the Karl-Device, was one of Nazi Germany’s largest siege mortars, and one of the biggest mortars ever built. It is difficult to overstate both the Karl-Gerät’s size... Here’s ...

The Maginot Line: A New History by Kevin Passmore confronts the myths surrounding the fall of France in 1940.

The headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end.

World War II, which claimed the lives of 40 million civilians and 20 million soldiers, was a tragic time when seen through a humanitarian lens. However, it is poetic how the period, in which the ...

Scores, hundreds, thousands of French, British, Germans—seasoned survivors of World War I as well as fresh-faced fodder for World War II—suffered painful, personal wounds or death along the ...

May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...