On 9 April 1940, the day that Denmark fell to the Nazi war machine, the Danish envoy to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, ...

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

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

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely linkage to human history..

Irene Gammel receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Joanna Dermenjian does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, and is a topic that is popular in the media. The primary reasons for this are, of course, the scale of it, and the fact that there was a ...