The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

War’s thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a second ...

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This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Yuen Foong Khong’s Analogies ...

Doctors refused several times sending him to the war, but he went to the front as a volunteer and fought to the war’s last day MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Vasily Ivanov, born in Yakutia, served at the ...