During World War II, thousands of women stepped into combat roles within the Soviet Red Army, but few were as feared or as ...

Gen. Stanley McChrystal joins the columnist David French, both veterans of the Iraq War, to discuss what may have been overlooked in the planning of Operation Epic Fury. McChrystal, who retired from ...

Roza Shanina was a 20-year-old girl, having worked in a kindergarten to make ends meet and support herself through school. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, leading to her brothers' deaths, she ...

Enemy at the Gates – first released 25 years ago this week – is based on a legendary duel amid the rubble and wreckage of the ...

Prisoners nearing retirement age and female convicts are being sent to some of the most dangerous assignments on the ...

With the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II stretching into a fifth year, the scale of the devastation wreaked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukrain ...

Often overlooked by Western military historians, the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was an early sign of the brutal urban combat ...

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...

You probably haven’t heard of Adeliia Petrosian but from Volgograd to Vladivostok she’s renowned as the Motherland’s reigning ice queen. Petrosian, a 17-year-old Muscovite who’s barely tall enough to ...

Samusenko was a woman who defied conventional gender norms and societal expectations to fight for her country during one of ...