The Battle of Stalingrad

For over a century, companies have tried to invent the next great way to listen to music or watch movies. Some became household standards that were the foundation of multi-billion-dollar industries. Others became expensive mistakes, technological dead ends, or punchlines in the h ...  Show more

For centuries, England was one of Europe's great Catholic kingdoms. Then, in the span of a single generation, it broke from Rome, closed its monasteries, executed saints and reformers, and created a church unlike any other in Europe. What began with a king’s marriage crisis becam ...  Show more

During World War Two, the Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most brutal engagements of the entire conflict, and would go on to be one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. Over a course of six months, Soviet forces fought to defend their city against the German Ar ...  Show more

Victory in Europe Day brought the curtain down on a horrific conflict that decimated a continent and upended the world. But the price of victory over fascism was impossibly high. Many millions had been killed, and vast areas of Europe had been all but destroyed. VE Day signalled ...  Show more

On July 21, 1861, Confederate and Union forces met for the first time in full-scale battle at Bull Run Creek, near Manassas, Virginia. By the end of the day nearly 900 men were dead, and it was clear that this war would not be over in 90 days.

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What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about? Why did the Germans and the British fight each other so brutally and for so long to take Ypres? What made the fighting so particularly violent? How were the British able to repel ...  Show more