Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

In the tense final days of World War II, Allied and Soviet forces stood at the height of their power what if diplomacy had ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.

In the 1920s, Soviet authorities helped plan a city in deepest Siberia where Christians could worship freely (and be watched closely) under the light of a giant electric "sun." ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died ...

Soviet Walkout. Though some Red Guards had clamored for Mao himself to speak on National Day, he remained silent. Instead, Lin Piao once again talked for him. Lin lauded China’s economic ...

Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91, Russian media reports In power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed breathtaking changes that overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the ...

The tanks are T-55s, a model first commissioned by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1948, shortly after the end of World War II.

On This Day: The Soviet Counteroffensive during the Battle of Stalingrad On November 19, 1942, the Soviet Red Army began a counteroffensive attack to move the Germans out of Stalingrad in a major ...