At 04:45 on 1 September 1939, the assault on Poland begins. A German battleship opens fire on the Polish garrison in Danzig (Gdansk). It is the first military engagement of World War Two.

It is indeed true that the Second World War has been mythologized ... or history is why Britain waited till a German invasion of Poland to join the war. It had nothing to do with Nazi domestic ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland held a state burial Monday for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany's World War II mass executions, whose remains were recently uncovered in the so-called Valley of ...

Kless’s book project—“Infighting at the Front: Officers, Bureaucrats, and Politicians at War in German-Occupied Russian Poland, 1914-1915”—was the Joint Winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars ...

There are a lot of reasons the United States of America would be a difficult country to invade ... American way. World War II kicked off in Europe with the German invasion of Poland in September ...

Should Russian forces launch an attack on Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia, which are all NATO member states, they could potentially sever their supply lines from Poland by linking Belarus and ...