Even a hero can face near-disaster. After being briefed on the Allies’ top-secret Ultra intelligence, Jimmy Doolittle was ...

The P-51 Mustang is remembered as a World War II icon, but its story did not end in 1945. This film follows the Mustang, the ...

Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...

Kat Devereaux’s “Daughter of Genoa” (Harper Perennial) is one of them. Set in the tense final months of World War II in Genoa ...

A journey into Hitler’s hidden forest headquarters in Poland, where key World War II campaigns were directed and the legacy ...

Covert operations are nothing new for the United States. Throughout its history, the U.S. has overthrown governments it didn’t like, supported insurgencies to complicate the goals of its adversaries ...

The search for an Australian warship lost at sea during a battle in the Second World War received more than $1m in funding from the federal government, newly released documents show.

Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...

For over a century, rumors about Queen Victoria's affair with her servant John Brown have persisted. Now a historian says she has proof. A portrait of Queen Victoria taken in honor of her Diamond ...

WW2 Women on the Frontline is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...