Finland, along with other NATO newbie Sweden, fills a gap in the alliance’s jigsaw puzzle, stretching from northern Lapland ...

As the war in Europe ended, Allied leaders faced a new crisis after the Soviet Union tightened control over Poland and ...

The post-World War II film "Nuremberg," starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, arrived on Netflix this weekend. Here’s what to know about the real-life psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and the Nuremberg ...

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Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...

She held the office of prime minister longer than any other British politician in the 20th century, setting her country on a right-leaning economic path.

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

There is no such thing as a free ride in geopolitics. But given the immense misery caused by the Iranian theocracy and its ...

Eighty years after Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, its warning against totalitarianism resonates amid modern ...

Harry Cockburn reports on how 80 years of the 'special relationship' have informed international conflict, after Donald Trump lashed out at the British prime minister ...

On April 30 1945, in his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler shot himself dead. Yet despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has ...

After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...