The Fortress of Bir Hakeim served as one of the most important strongholds of the Free French Army against General Erwin ...

Greek resistance to the Axis powers during the Second World War was the longest of all the nations of western Europe.

Less than a month after Italy threw her hat into the Axis ring, declaring war on Britain and France, the Italians faced the ...

At the height of the Second World War, more than 20,000 German and Italian prisoners of war were housed in Mississippi, with several camps located on or near the coast. By 1943, the tides of war had ...

The Axis last week was locked in struggle to death with an octopus: the British Empire. More than any week in the war the long tentacles of empire wrapped, the complexity wriggled, and the small eyes ...

I mean think about it for a moment. You had the german aryan nation on one side, with all the hot, statuesque blonds, and the imperial japanese on the other side with the little japanese ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including ...