Today, the OGH is Guernsey’s only five-star hotel. It has 60 rooms, a spa and a heated outside pool, and first-class ...

Carrie and Shaun Tullier have a house with probably the best foundations on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. It starts with ...

For the first time, the names of 425,000 individuals who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II have been made available online. The names were ...

When you think of post-war rifles that have stood the test of time, the Heckler & Koch G3 immediately comes to mind. Featuring a design that incorporated World War II-era developments with Cold ...

The FN FAL is a legendary Cold War-era weapon. The 7.62 x 51 mm NATO-caliber rifle is famed for its reliability and versatility, serving in diverse combat environments across many countries. With a ...

In 1950, just five years after the conclusion of the Second World War, a request was issued to Soviet aircraft manufacturers for a new bomber. Along with the ability to carry upwards of 24,000 pounds ...

Zone Rouge – or the “Red Zone” – is a chain of former battlefields across northeastern France that the government has cordoned off due to the many dangerous ordnance that remains from the First World ...

A total of 23 U-boats were stationed in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II. Over the course of the conflict, they took out a number of Allied vessels, with only one meeting a similar fate. U-166 ...

The Vietnam War was arguably the most controversial conflict of the 20th century. One of the most contentious aspects of the war was the Phoenix Program, a US counterinsurgency effort that aimed to ...

The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, also known as the F-80, was the first jet fighter used operationally by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF). While German jet aircraft, such as the Messerschmitt Me 262, ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower viewed firsthand the crimes that were committed by the Germans at concentration camps when he visited the newly-liberated Ohrdruf during the Second World War. The sights were so ...

The United States and United Kingdom were undoubtedly best known for their navies during the Second World War. There were, of course, others involved in the conflict, including the Polish Navy, who ...