As Hitler’s armies gathered on the Soviet border, warning after warning poured into Moscow — yet Stalin refused to believe an ...
Across two vast fronts, Allied commanders took drastically different paths to victory. MacArthur’s calculated island-hopping ...
Unlike ordinary German POWs, captured Waffen-SS men were considered war criminals by the Red Army. For Stalin’s Soviet Union, ...
His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.
At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...